Lex Appuleia agraria

The lex Appuleia agraria was a Roman agrarian law introduced by the plebeian tribune Lucius Appuleius Saturninus during his second tribunate in 100 BC. The law concerned the distribution of land to poor Romans and to Gaius Marius' veterans. According to Appian, this was to be provided from land that had been seized by the Cimbri in Transalpine Gaul. A separate but related law also established colonies Sicily, Achaea, Macedonia, and possibly Africa.

For other leges agrariae, see lex agraria (disambiguation).

The law also required the swearing of an oath to follow it. Some senators, including Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus refused to take the oath and therefore departed into exile. Although Saturninius was an ally of Marius, his activities during the elections of 100 BC – including an murder of a hostile candidate – triggered a senatus consultum ultimum which saw him apprehended and his death to a mob in the senate house. Saturninius' land activities were not overturned after his death.

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