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Cicero's consulship


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While we all now what occurred during Cicero's consulship, does anyone know what kind of legislation, if any, was passed?

Salve, PC

PP knows:

 

63 Lex Ampia Labiena de Trimphalibus Ornamentis Cn. Pompeius By tribunes T. Ampius and T. Labienus, allowed special provisions for Cn. Pompeius Magnus regarding triumphal attire after his eastern victories.

(Vell. Pat. 2.40)

"In Pompey's absence the tribunes of the people, Titus Ampius and Titus Labienus, proposed a law that at the games of the circus Pompey should be permitted to wear a golden crown and the full dress of the triumphator, and at the theatre the purple-bordered toga and the golden crown. But he forbore to use this honour more than once, and indeed that was itself too often."

(Cass.Dio.37.21)

"As for the triumph,

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