Meaning of Gabinian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to the gens Gabinia, a plebeian family of Ancient Rome.
   Ancient-Rome, not-comparable
2. Of or pertaining to Aulus Gabinius, tribune of the plebs in 139 BCE, who introduced a law in 139 BCE that permitted voting by ballot.
   Ancient-Rome, not-comparable
3. Of or pertaining to Aulus Gabinius, consul in 58 BCE, who introduced a law in 67 BCE that granted Pompey an extraordinary command in the war against the pirates.
   Ancient-Rome, not-comparable

Examples

“Cicero appears to have been of this opinion, as we find him in his dialogue on friendship, objecting to the Gabinian law, by which ballot was enacted in lieu of oral voting, on the ground that the populace would gain the ascendancy in elections; a degree of freedom to which he was averse.”

“Josephus says nothing of Samareitis, but the Samaritans had a council in the first century A.D., which was probably a survival of a Gabinian council: it probably sat at Shechem.”

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