CĂNŬLĒIA. (B.C. 445) established connubium between the patres and
plebs, which had been taken away by the law of the Twelve Tables.
CASSĬA (B.C. 104), proposed by the tribune L. Cassius Longinus,
did not allow a person to remain a senator who had been convicted
in a judicium populi, or whose imperium had been abrogated by the
populus.
CASSĬA empowered the dictator Caesar to add to the number of the
patricii, to prevent their extinction.
CASSĬA AGRĀRĬA, proposed by the consul Sp. Cassius, B.C. 486. This
is said to have been the first agrarian law. It enacted that of
the land taken from the Hernicans, half should be given to the
Latins, and half to the plebs, and likewise that part of the public
land possessed by the patricians should be distributed among the
plebeians. This law met with the most violent opposition, and
appears not to have been carried. Cassius was accused of aiming at
the sovereignty, and was put to death. [AGER PUBLICUS.]