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LEPTINES , an Athenian orator, known as the proposer of a See also:

law that no Athenian, whether See also:citizen or See also:resident See also:alien (with the See also:sole exception of the descendants of See also:Harmodius and Aristogeiton), should be exempt from the public charges (Aeerovpytac) for the See also:state festivals. The See also:object was to provide funds for the festivals and public See also:spectacles at a See also:time when both the See also:treasury and the citizens generally were See also:short of See also:money. It was further asserted that many of the recipients of See also:immunity were really unworthy of it. Against this law See also:Demosthenes delivered (354 B.C.) his well-known speech Against Leptines in support of the proposal of Ctesippus that all the cases of immunity should be carefully investigated. See also:Great stress is laid on the reputation for ingratitude and See also:breach of faith which the abolition of See also:inn munities would bring upon the state. Besides, the law itself had been passed unconstitutionally, for an existing law confirmed these privileges, and by the constitution of See also:Solon no law could be enacted until any existing law which it contravened had been repealed. The law was probably condemned. Nothing further is known of Leptines. See the edition of the speech by J. E. See also:Sandys (189o). II engineer, A.

Daux, has discovered a probable See also:

line of ramparts Like its See also:neighbour See also:Hadrumetum, See also:Leptis Parva declared for See also:Rome after the last Punic See also:War. Also after the fall of See also:Carthage in 146 it preserved its See also:autonomy and was declared a civitas libera et immunis (See also:Appian, Punka, 94; C.I.L. i. 200; De See also:bell. Afric. c. xii.). See also:Julius See also:Caesar made it the See also:base of his operations before the See also:battle of See also:Thapsus in 46 (Ch. See also:Tissot, Geogr. comp. ii. 728). Under the See also:Empire Leptis Parva became extremely prosperous; its bishops appeared in the See also:African See also:councils from 258 onwards. In Justinian's reorganization of See also:Africa we find that Leptis Parva was with Capsa one of the two residences of the See also:Dux Byzacenae (Tissot, op. cit. p. 171). The See also:town had coins under See also:Augustus and Tiberius. On the obverse is the imperial effigy with a Latin See also:legend, and on the See also:reverse the See also:Greek legend AEIITIC with the bust of See also:Mercury (Lud.

See also:

Muller, Numism. de l'anc. Afrique, ii. 49). The ruins extend along the See also:sea-See also:coast to the See also:north-See also:west of Lemta; the remains of docks, the See also:amphitheatre and the See also:acropolis can be distinguished; a See also:Christian See also:cemetery has furnished tombs adorned with curious mosaics. See Comptes rendus de l'Acad. See also:des Inscrip. et B.-Lettres (1883), p. 189; Cagnat and See also:Saladin, " Notes d'archeol. tunisiennes," in the Bulletin monumental of 1884; Archives des See also:missions, xii. III; Cagnat, Explorations archeol. en Tunisie, 3me fasc. pp. 9-16, and Tour du monde (1881), i. 292; Saladin, Rapport sur une See also:mission en Tunisie (1886), pp. 9-20; Bulletin archeol. du comite de travaux historiques (1895), pp. 69-71 (See also:inscriptions of Lamta) ; Bulletin de la See also:Soc. archeol. de Sousse (1905; See also:plan of the ruins of Lamta). (E.

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