AELĬA SENTĬA, passed in the time of Augustus (about A.D. 3). This
lex contained various provisions as to the manumission of slaves.
AEMĬLĬA. A lex passed in the dictatorship of Mamercus Aemilius
(B.C. 433), by which the censors were elected for a year and
a half, instead of a whole lustrum. After this lex they had
accordingly only a year and a half allowed them for holding the
census and letting out the public works to farm.