Lucius Villius Annalis

Lucius Villius Annalis was a politician of the Villia gens of ancient Rome in the 2nd century BCE. He was a Tribune of the Plebs, who first acquired the cognomen "Annalis" in 179 BCE, because he introduced a law fixing the year (annus in Latin) at which it was allowable for a person to be a candidate for the public offices, the Lex Villia annalis.[1] He later became praetor peregrinus in 171 BC.[2]

Notes
  1. Livy, xl. 44
  2. Broughton, 1. p. 417

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Annalis". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 180.

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