Gabinian

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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