The Legal Issue In Cicero, Pro Balbo

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ID9664160
AuthorsP A Brunt (Brasenose College, corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume32
Issue1
Pages136-147
Publication date1982-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0009838800022904
OpenAlexW2268390919
LanguageEN
Citations received44

In 56 L. Cornelius Balbus, a native of Gades, was charged with having usurped the Roman citizenship. Most scholars have held on the basis of Cicero’s speech in his defence that the charge was unjustified. This orthodoxy was challenged in 1966 by H. Braunert: 1 in his view Balbus’ enfranchisement was illegal because the consent of Gades had not been obtained. More recently H. Galsterer has deduced from this premise the further conclusion that in the second century the Latin ius migrationis was restricted by a rule that no migrant could become a Roman citizen without the consent of the city of his origin. 2 It is my aim to rehabilitate the orthodox view and to show that there is no warrant for Galsterer’s thesis

Charge (physics · Cicero · Citizenship · Epistemology · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Premise · Sociology · Theology · Warrant · Classical Studies and Legal History · Classics · Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction · History · Law · Legal principles and applications · Philosophy

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