Forum (Romanum or Magnum)

Res Rusticae

M. Terentius Varro

Eiusdem gentis C. Licinius, tr. pl. cum esset, post reges exactos annis CCCLXV primus populum ad leges accipiendas in septem iugera forensia e comitio eduxit.

Licinius, of the same family, when he was tribune of the plebs, 365 years after the kings had been driven out, first led the people out of the comitium to receive laws in the "farm" of the Forum.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from M. Terentius Varro: On Agriculture, Loeb Classical Library Vol. 283, translated by W.D. Hooper, H.B. Ash, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1934, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Texts

"Fragmentum (cited by Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina)", 853L
M. Terentius Varro (Varro)

Ab Urbe Condita, 40.51.5
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 9.40.16
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 1.35.10
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 26.27.1-4
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 27.11.16
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 1.56.2
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 1.38.6
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita Periochae, 16
T. Livius (Livy)

Aeneis, 8.361
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil)

Antiquitates Romanae, 3.67.4
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Carmina, 1.2.13-16
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace)

Curculio, 476
T. Maccius Plautus

Curculio, 470-81
T. Maccius Plautus

De Amicitia, 96
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 2.4.7
Valerius Maximus

Fasti, 6.401-6
P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Forum Romanum
Richardson, L. jr

Forum Romanum (The Imperial Period)
N. Purcell

Forum Romanum (The Republican Period)
N. Purcell

Historia Romana, 13.16
Paulus Diaconus

Historiae Romanae, 43.22.2
Cassius Dio

Liber Pontificalis, 2.108
anon.

Naturalis Historia, 19.23
C. Plinius Caecilius (Pliny the Elder)

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