lex
Short definition (Lewis & Short): a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill (cf. institutum).
Full entry: Lexicon.
132 occurrences of this form in 23 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- History of Rome (Books 1–10)
- Letters to Atticus
- Letters
- Philippics
- Letters to Lucilius
- Annals
- De Re Publica
- Satires
- De Officiis
- Letters to Friends
- Epigrams
- De Oratore
- Epistles
- Ars Poetica
- The Conspiracy of Catiline
- Poems
- Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
- Odes
- Ars Amatoria
- Metamorphoses
- The Jugurthine War
- On the Shortness of Life
- Histories
Example passages
……iudicium supplicii auctor esset, concilio populi aduocato 'duumuiros' inquit, 'qui Horatio perduellionem iudicent, secundum legem facio.' lex horrendi carminis erat:…
……quem nemo praeter nos philosophos aspicere sine suspiritu posset. quantum hoc vulnus! facto senatus consulto de ambitu, de iudiciis nulla lex perlata, exagitatus senatus, alienati equites Romani. sic ille annus duo firmamenta rei publicae per me unum constituta evertit; nam et senatus auctoritatem abiecit et ordinum concordiam diiunxit.……
…Meministine te saepe legisse, quantas contentiones excitarit lex tabellaria, quantumque ipsi latori vel gloriae vel reprehensionis attulerit?…