La legislazione de ambitu a Roma e le norme contro la corruzione elettorale della Lex Coloniae Genetivae Iuliae

Abstract

Modern scholarship has usually taken for granted that in treating the crime de ambitu the Lex Coloniae Genetivae Iuliae has essentially adopted elements from the parallel Roman legislation against the electoral corruption, with no more than few superficial modifications. However, the analysis of the chapter 132 of the charter of Urso in the light of some excerpts from Cicero’s Pro Murena shows that the local law profoundly innovated in respect to the central model, by introducing concepts – such as the possibility for the judges of prosecuting both the corrupters and the corrupted – that only sporadically seem to emerge in the contemporary Roman legislation de ambitu.