ASPETTI DI DIRITTO PUBBLICO NELLE LEGES MVNICIPALES: DALLE PRECEDENTI TESTIMONIANZE ALLA NUOVA LEX TROESMENSIVM*

Abstract

ASPECTS OF PUBLIC RIGHT IN LEGES MVNICIPALES:
FROM PREVIOUS TESTIMONIALS TO THE NEWLEX TROESMENSIVM
Since the end of the 18th century, epigraphic evidence for Roman leges municipales and leges coloniae is constantly growing,
enriching our knowledge of Roman public law. Most recently, two bronze fragments of the lex municipalis of Troesmis in
Moesia inferior from the times of Marcus Aurelius' and Commodus' joint reign (177–180 AD) were published by Eck. The text on
tablet B starts within regulations on the minimum asset of election candidates. According to the editio princeps, the lex then raises
the minimum age of candidates for priesthoods. The following reference to Augustan legislation is said to concern the calculation
of the candidates' individual "legal age". A critical revision of the inscription's text leads to certain modifications.
KEYWORDS
Leges municipales – Roman elections – decuriones – lex Iulia de maritandis ordinibus – lex Papia Poppea