AELIA. This lex and a Fufia Lex, passed
about the end of the sixth century of the
city, gave to all the magistrates the obnim-
ciatio, or power of preventing or dissolving
the comitia, by observing the omens and de-
claring them to be unfavourable.
AELIA, De Coloniis Deducendis. (Liv.
xxxiv. 63.)

AELIA SENTIA, passed in the time of
Augustus (about a. d. 3). This lex contained
various provisions as to the manumission of
slaves. ^, ^

AEMILIA. A lex passed in the dictator-
ship of Mamercus Aemilius (b. c. 433), by
which the censors were elected for a year
and a half, instead of a whole lustrum.
After this lex they had accordingly only a
year and a half allowed them for holding
the census and letting out the public works
to farm.
AEMILIA BAEBIA. [Cornelia Baebia.]

AEMILIA. [Leoes SxmpnrARiAE.]

AGRArIaE, the name of laws which had



relation to the ager publicus. [Acer Pcbli-
CTJS.] The most important of these are men-
tioned imder the names of their proposers.
[ Appuleia ; Cassia ; Cornelia ; Flamisu ;
Flavia ; JuLLA ; Licinia ; Sempronia ; Soi-
vilia; Thoria.]

AMBITUS. [Ambitxjs.]

AMPIa, to allow Cn. Pompeius to wear a
crown of bay at the Ludi Circense8,'&c Pro-
posed by T. Ampins and T. Labienus, tr. pL
b. c. 64.
ANNALIS or VILLIA, proposed by L. Til-
lius Tapulus in b. c. 179, fixed the age at
which a Roman citizen might become a cxn-
didate for the higher magistracies. It ap-
pears that until this law was passed, an;
office might be enjoyed by a citizen after
completing his twenty-serentli year. The
iLex Annalis fixed 31 as the age for tiie
quaestorship, 37 for the aedileship, 40 for
the praetorship, and 43 for the consulship.
