Note 260 — XLV (A II, 19)
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
That is, the law for distribution of corn among poorer citizens. There were many such. Perhaps the most recent was the lex Cassia Terentia (B.C. 73). Cæsar, who, when in later years he became supreme, restricted this privilege, may have threatened to do so now.