Talk:Lex Apula de assiduis et capite censis (Nova Roma)

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The proposing consul introduced this rogatio to the comitia saying:

"This lex proposes modification to the Lex Cornelia Octavia De Assuidi et Capti Censi."

(Message 40518 in the archives of Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com)

In fact, however, the lex goes further than merely modifying the lex Cornelia Octavia, for it completely supercedes it and must be taken to have repealed it by implication; it also completely supercedes the lex Vedia de assiduis et capite censis which the lex Cornelia Octavia followed and partly amended, and must be taken to have repealed that lex also.