Tabellae



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Tabellae - Tablets or Billets. - These are made the subject of more than one type, on coins of the Cassia family, on account of the lex tabellaria carried by L. Cassius in the year V.C. 653, for the purpose of [?] to the Roman people the right of voting by billet (or ballot) in all judgment cases, for all alleged crimes and misdemeanors, excepting murder. - See Suffragia; also Cassia gens. - The letter L. D. were inscribed on Tabellae to signify Libero, Damno, used in voting on questions of guilty or not guilty, at judicial assemblies. One of the tablets marked L. D. is seen at the back of a man's head, C. CALDVS, COS. on a denarius of the Coelia family.

The Tabella or Tessera in the hand of the statue of Liberalitas was a square brass tablet, on which the quantity of bread and the name of the recipient were engraved, according to what the liberality of the emperors had ordained to be distributed to each citizen. - See Tessera.


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