CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Germanicus, Li Long, Lex Julia
15 Apr 2017
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Reward legitimate marriage & couples who bore children. Punished (booth monetarily & politically) unmarried citizens & childless couples. Lex iulia de maritandis ordinibus(18 b. c. ) (i. e. the julian laws) Lex iulia et papia poppaea(i. e. the two above legislations collectively known as) Also, lex ilulia de adulteriis coercendis (18 b. c. ) Concerned with adultery & listed it as a public crime. Would have property revoked & subject to exile. The equestrian order clamored loudly, at a spectacle in the theatre, for its total repeal; whereupon he sent for the children of. Sumptuary law- associated with luxury the theatre, for its total repeal; whereupon he sent for the children of. Germanicus, & showed them partly sitting upon his own lap, & partly on their father(cid:18854)s; intimating by his looks & gestures, that they ought not to think it a grievance to follow the example of that young man. (cid:18854) First to sponsor legislation that promoted marriage & family-
