Publius Popillius Laenas:

in 132 before j-c, it is Consul.

With his colleague with the consulate Publius Rupilius, he inquires into the death of Tiberius Gracchus, he continued with greatest severity the partisans of Gracchus.

In 123 before j-c Gaius Gracchus, brother of Tiberius, proves according to old laws, that a magistrate could not marked the capital punishment against a Roman citizen, without the assent of other people, should be guilty of high treason, and prohibiting all commissions. It is not known if this law contained a retrospective clause against Laenas. However democrats of Rome one to pronounce his exile of Italy against him. After the restoration of the aristocracy the payments against were to give up, and it was recalled of sound exiles.

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