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

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