Lex Claudia

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Lex Claudia was a law established in ancient Rome in 218 BC. It is a law which prohibited senators from participating in overseas trade.

The law forced Roman senators into large-scale farming and pushed the equites into the business of international shipping. The enormous farms of Roman senators are said to have created conditions leading to the rise of the Gracchi in 133 BC, during the late Roman Republic

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• Roman Law
• List of Roman laws

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• The Roman Law Library, incl. Leges

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