Talk:Lex Valeria (82 BC)

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This article should be put into paragraph form rather than number-bullet form. Please provide text explaining the significance of the law as the last major effort by the optimates to re-establish the oligarchic system against the measures being taken by the populares, and its role in the next sixty years that led to the empire. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:53, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Errors
The law wasn't established by the senate. It was proposed by the interrex, which was Flaccus, who had the legislation passed through the assemblies. See Wilson, Dictator (2021). Ifly6 (talk) 03:14, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Rewrote section on passage. Ifly6 (talk) 20:24, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Lepidus also wasn't able to reintroduce grain distributions. The state of grain laws is unclear through the 70s; aediles like Hortensius (75 BC) and Seius (74 BC) won great acclaim in buying grain for the people. It is not clear whether they did so out of their own funds or from public funds allotted by the senate or others. Millar, Crowd in Rome (1998) p. 60. Nor did Lepidus overturn Sulla's acta. Id. at 58 ("Lepidus replied that [restoring the powers of the tribunes] would not be in the public interest"). Attempts were made in the 70s to repeal Sulla's bar on tribunes standing for future office and restore tribunician vetoes. They eventually were largely effected only in 70 during the consulship of Pompey and Crassus. Id. at 64. Ifly6 (talk) 19:27, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Errors resolved. Some sections are also now only alluded to. This article is about the law. It is not about Sulla's constitutional reforms or his acta. Only a cursory summary is necessary for context. Ifly6 (talk) 21:18, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Will, in time, verify citations to Boatwright 2012. Waiting for book version to arrive; cannot find online. Ifly6 (talk) 20:24, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Boatwright
Now having found and having on hand a copy of The Romans (2nd ed, 2012), it appears that all the page citations are plainly wrong. Page 200 talks about Pompey and Crassus' consulship in 70; page 197 refers to Sertorius in Spain. I will omit the relevant citations and endeavour to preserve what can be preserved. Ifly6 (talk) 00:37, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * This was done. Ifly6 (talk) 02:15, 8 August 2022 (UTC)