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MURENA

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 34 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOS-NAN
MURENA , the name of a Roman plebeian family from Lanuvium, belonging to the Licinian gens, said to be derived from the fondness of one of the family for lampreys (murenae). The
principal
  members of the family were Lucius
Licinius
  Murena, who was defeated by
Mithradates
  in
Asia
  in 81 B.C., and his son Lucius
Licinius
  Murena, who was defended by Cicero in 62 B.c. against a charge of bribery (Cie. Pro Murena). The son was for several years legate of Lucius Licinius Lucullus in the third Mithradatic War. In 65 he was praetor and made himself popular by the magnificence of the
games
  provided by him. As
administrator
  of Transalpine Gaul after his praetorship he gained the goodwill of both provincials and Romans by his impartiality. In 62 he was elected
consul
 , but before entering upon office he was accused of bribery by Servius Sulpicius, an unsuccessful competitor, supported by Marcus Porcius Cato the younger and Servius Sulpicius Rufus, a famous jurist and son of the accuser. Murena was defended by Marcus Licinius Crassus (afterwards triumvir), Quintus Hortensius and Cicero, and acquitted, although it seems probable that he was guilty. During his consulship he passed a law (lex Junia Licinia) which enforced more strictly the provision of the lex Caecilia Didiathat
laws
  should be promulgated three nundinae before they were proposed to the comitia, and further enacted that, in order to prevent forgery, a copy of every proposed
statute
  should be deposited before witnesses in the
aerarium
 .


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