falcidius

Updated: June 26, 2025

Also the so-called Lex Falcidia, which has the greatest force even still in regard to the succession to inheritances, was enacted by Publius Falcidius, a tribune: its terms are that if an heir feels oppressed in any way, he may secure at least a fourth, of the property left behind by surrendering the rest.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus - Dio's Rome, Volume 3 : An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During : The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, : Elagabalus and Alexander Severus