The Laws of the Roman People
Subtitle: Public Law in the Expansion and Decline of the Roman Republic
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: April 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9780472110537
Subjects: Roman law; Public law (Roman law); History: World; History; History - General History; Ancient Rome; Rome; Ancient - Rome; Legal History; Political Science / General; Politics and government
First sentence: IN 81, AT THE conclusion of a bloody civil war, the Roman people approved a bill sponsored by L. Valerius Flaccus, as interrex, making L. Cornelius Sulla "Dictator for Writing the Laws and Restoring the State" (dictator legibus scribendis et rei publicae constituendae).