Ancient Roman law
This article is about a law granting proconsular power to the consuls of 55 BC. For the law forbidding tribunes of the plebs from co-opting their colleagues, see
Lex Trebonia (448 BC) .
TheLex Trebonia Roman law passed in 55 BC during the second jointconsulship ofMarcus Licinius Crassus andPompey , as part of their informal political arrangement known as theFirst Triumvirate . Sponsored by thetribune of the plebs Gaius Trebonius , the legislation granted each outgoing consul an extended five-yearproconsular command, similar to the one granted toJulius Caesar for hisconquest of Gaul . Crassus received theprovince ofSyria , with the barely disguised intention oflaunching an invasion ofParthia . Pompey received the provinces ofHispania Citerior andHispania Ulterior , but remained in Rome and conducted his administration throughlegates .
At the same time,Gaius Julius Caesar 's term asgovernor of the provincesTransalpine Gaul ,Cisalpine Gaul andIllyricum was extended, hostilities in Gaul having reignited. By law, Caesar could not run for a second consulship until ten years after his first, and he wished not to return to Rome as aprivate citizen .
Erich S. Gruen ,The Last Generation of the Roman Republic (University of California Press, 1974), p. 537online et passim .
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