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LAENAS

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 63 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
LAENAS , the name of a plebeian family in ancient Rome, notorious for cruelty and arrogance. The two most famous of the name' are:
GAIL'S PoPILLIus LAENAS,
consul
  in 172 B.C. He was sent to
Greece
  in 174 to allay the general disaffection, but met with little success. He took part in the war against Perseus, king of Macedonia (Livy xliii. 17, 22). When Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria, invaded
Egypt
 , Laenas was sent to arrest his progress.
Meeting
  him near Alexandria, he handed him the decree of the senate, demanding the evacuation of
Egypt
 . Antiochus having asked time for consideration, Laenas drew a circle round him with his staff, and told him he must give an answer before he stepped out of it. Antiochus thereupon submitted (Livy xlv. 12;
Polybius
  xxix. 11; Cicero, Philippica, viii. 8; Vell. Pat. i. 1o).
PuBL1us PoPILL1us LAENAS, son of the preceding. When
consul
  in 132 B.C. he incurred the hatred of the democrats by his harsh
measures
  as head of a
special
  commission appointed to take
measures
  against the accomplices of Tiberius Gracchus. In 123 Gaius Gracchus brought in a bill prohibiting all such commissions, and declared that, in accordance with the old
laws
  of appeal, a
magistrate
  who pronounced sentence of death
' The name is said by Cicero to be derived from laena, the sacerdotal cloak carried by Marcus Popillius (consul 359) when he went to the forum to quell a popular rising.-LAETUS 63
against a citizen, without the people's assent, should be guilty of high treason. It is not known whether the bill contained a retrospective clause against Laenas, but he left Rome and sentence of banishment from Italy was pronounced against him. After the restoration of the aristocracy the enactments against him were cancelled, and he was recalled (12r).
See Cicero, Brutus, 25. 34, and De domo sua, 31; Vell. Pat. ii. 7; Plutarch, C. Gracchus, 4.


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