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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 50 | 50 | Browse | Search |
| M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller) | 5 | 5 | Browse | Search |
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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 8 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.), chapter 28 (search)
in that year the liberty of the Roman plebs had as it were a new beginning; for menB.C. 326 ceased to be imprisoned for debt.The plebs had gained political liberty on the expulsion of the kings and the adoption of the republican government. now they were assured of personal liberty as well. The reform is put by Valerius Maximus (vi. i. 9) and Dionysius of Halicarnassus (xvi. 9) after the disaster at the Caudine Forks in 321 B.C.
The change in the law was occasioned by the notable lust and cruelty of a single usurer, Lucius Papirius, to whom Gaius Publilius had given himself up for a debt owed by his father. The debtor's youth and beauty, which might well have stirred the creditor's compassion, did but inflame his heart to lust and contumely.
regarding the lad's youthful prime as additional compensation for the loan, he sought at first to seduce him with lewd conversation; later, finding he turned a deaf ear to the base proposal, he began to threaten him and now and ag