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]

Notes

  1. ↑ Livy, xl. 44

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

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