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Titus Didius

Consul in 98 (first in his family); restored Villa Publica

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  1. 98 BCE
    Consul · Co-consul: Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos (cos. 98)

    Broughton: Didius received the province of Nearer Spain (Obseq. 47; see 97-93, Promagistrates). (MRR2); MT: They carried two laws (leges Caeciliae-Didiae) 1) requiring three market days to pass between the bill's announcement and its vote, and 2) disallowing the combining of two unrelated proposals in one bill

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    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.681; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 54f., 128, 478f.; Ascon. 63C; Obseq. 47; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Didius, Cic. Mur. 17. They carried a law to require three nundinae in the period from announcement of a bill to its passage (Cic. Dom. 41; Sest. 135, and Schol. Bob. 140 Stangl; Phil. 5.3; cf. Att. 2.9.1; Leg. 3.11 and 43; Festus 416L), and one to forbid the union of unrelated measures in a single bill (Cic. Dom. 53). Didius received the province of Nearer Spain (Obseq. 47; see 97-93, Promagistrates).

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    Titus Didius (tr. pl. 143)