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QUINTUS HORTENSIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 741 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUINTUS
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HORTENSIUS  ,
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dictator of
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Rome 286 B.C . When the
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people, pressed by their patrician creditors, " seceded " to the Janiculum, he was commissioned to put an end to the strife . He passed a
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law whereby the resolutions of the multitude (plebiscita) were made binding on all the citizens, without the approval of the
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senate being necessary . This was not a
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mere re-enactment of previous
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laws . Another law, passed about the same
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time, which declared the nundinae (
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market days) to be
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dies
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fasti (
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clays on which legal business might be transacted), is also attributed to him . He is said to have died while still dictator . Aulus
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Gellius xv . 27;
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Pliny, Nat . Hist. xvi . 15; Nlacrobius, Saturnalia i . 16;
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Livy, Epit. ii .

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