Leges Genuciae (also Lex Genucia or Lex Genucia de feneratione) were laws proposed in 342 BC by plebeian consul Lucius Genucius. Events By place Macedonia The Greek philosopher Aristotle, is invited by Philip II to his capital at Pella to tutor Plebs were the general body of landowners of Roman Citizens in Ancient Rome. Consul (abbrev cos; Latin plural consules) was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Empire
These laws banned lending that carried interest (however it soon became disused), holding two magistrates at the same time or repeated holding of office within 10 years. Finally they required one consul to be plebeian and also permitted both plebeian consuls (first such case was in 172 BC). Events By place Greece Eumenes II of Pergamum travels to Rome to warn the Roman Senate of the danger from However all of the restrictions began to be disused except the last one.