Lex Claudia de nave senatoris
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The lex Claudia (Classical Latin: [leːks ˈklau̯dɪ.a]) also known as the plebiscitum Claudianum[1] or the lex Claudia de nave senatoris,[2] was a Roman law passed in 218 BC. Proposed at the start of the Second Punic War, the law prohibited senators and their sons from owning an "ocean-going ship" (maritimam navem)[3] which had a capacity of more than 300 amphorae. It was proposed by the tribune Quintus Claudius and supported by a senator Gaius Flaminius (consul 223 BC and 217 BC). There are no surviving contemporary sources for the law; the only ancient source to explicitly discuss it being the historian Livy.[4] While Cicero (consul 63 BC) does mention the law in his prosecution of Verres in 70 BC,[5] this is only an indirect reference. As such, the ancient evidence is limited and only dates from nearly two centuries later. Nonetheless, modern scholarship has continued to debate the purpose and significance of the lex Claudia.