LICINIUS STOLO, a Roman tribune, styled Stolo on account of a law he made, whilst tribune, that no Roman citizen should possess more than 500 acres of land; alleging, that when they occupied more, they could not cultivate it with care, nor pull up the useless shoots (stolones) which grow from the roots of trees. He is remembered also for having enacted, that one of the consuls should always be of a plebeian family. He lived about 362 B. C.
LICINIUS STOLO
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