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‘Het recht om officiële ambten in de stad te bekleden’
Een juridische analyse van de Tabula Lugdunensis
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Lampas, Volume 56, Issue 4, Dec 2023, p. 304 - 318
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- 01 Dec 2023
Abstract
Ever since its discovery in 1528, the Tabula Lugdunensis has regularly drawn the attention of scholars of Roman law. The focus of legal historical research on the tablet mostly concerns the content of both the request of the primores of Gaul and the senatus consultum which followed it. Central to this discussion are two passages from Tacitus’ Annales (11.23.1 and 11.25.1). On the basis of these texts, this article discusses the two most important legal aspects of the Tabula Lugdunensis. The first part will focus on the background and interpretation of the request of the Gauls. It will be argued that the primores petitioned the emperor for the right to wear the latus clavus, which would enable them to stand for office in Rome and enter the senate. In the second part of this article, the consideration of the request in Rome (by the emperor and his consilium and by the senate) will be discussed, resulting in the conclusion that – in contrast to what has often been suggested in modern literature – the Gauls (or rather the Aedui) were awarded the right to wear the latus clavus rather than being directly adlected into the senate.