The ''lex Atinia'' may refer to one of three pieces of Roman legislation. Cicero says that the authors of the ''leges Atiniae'' came from Aricia (Phillipics, III, 6, 16).

lex Atinia (197 BC)

The first lex Atinia was introduced by Gaius Atinius Labeo to order to found five ''coloniae civium in oram maritimam''. It assigned three hundred families for the colonies of

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and

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and appointed, with three-year powers, the triumvirs M. Servilius Geminus, Q. Minucius Termus and Ti. Sempronius Longo: the implantation actually took place at the end of the three-year period in 194 BC.

lex Atinia de usucapione

The ''lex Atinia de usucapione'' was also introduced by Gaius Atinius Labeo in 195-7 BC. The law dealt with

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, acquisition of a title or right to property by uninterrupted and undisputed possession for a prescribed term. The law prevented the acquisition of title by continued possession of stolen goods. Aulus

Gellius Aulus Gellius (c. 125after 180 AD) was a Roman author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome. He is famous for his ''Attic Nights'', a commonplace book, or ...

quotes it and cites its meaning.

lex Atinia (before 149 BC)

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into the Senate. It probably entitled a holder of the office to sit in the senate as a ''tribuniscius'' with a presumptive inclusion for the next senatorial ''lectio''. The law is mentioned by Gellius in a quotation from

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.Noctes Atticae, XIV, 8, 2

References

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lex Atinia (197 BC)

lex Atinia de usucapione

lex Atinia (before 149 BC)

See also

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