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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 34 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MURENA , the name of a See also:

ROMAN

Roman plebeian See also:

FAMILY

family from See also:

LANUVIUM (more frequently Lanivium in imperial times, mod. Civita Lavinia)

Lanuvium, belonging to the Licinian gens, said to be derived from the fondness of one of the family for lampreys (murenae). The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal members of the family were See also:

LUCIUS

Lucius See also:

LICINIUS

Licinius Murena, who was defeated by See also:

MITHRADATES

Mithradates in See also:

ASIA

Asia in 81 B.C., and his son Lucius Licinius Murena, who was defended by See also:

CICERO

Cicero in 62 B.c. against a See also:

charge of See also:

BRIBERY (from the O. Fr. briberie, begging or vagrancy, bribe, Mid. Lat. briba, signifying a piece of bread given to beggars; the Eng. " bribe " has passed through the meanings of alms, blackmail and extortion, to gifts received or given in order to influ

bribery (Cie. See also:

PRO

Pro Murena). The son was for several years See also:

legate of Lucius Licinius See also:

LUCULLUS

Lucullus in the third Mithradatic See also:

War. In 65 he was See also:

PRAETOR (Lat. prae-itor, " he who goes before," "a leader")

praetor and made himself popular by the magnificence of the See also:

GAMES, CLASSICAL

games provided by him. As See also:

ADMINISTRATOR

administrator of Transalpine See also:

Gaul after his praetorship he gained the See also:

GOODWILL

goodwill of both provincials and See also:

Romans by his impartiality. In 62 he was elected See also:

consul, but before entering upon See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office he was accused of bribery by Servius Sulpicius, an unsuccessful competitor, supported by See also:

MARCUS

Marcus Porcius See also:

Cato the younger and Servius Sulpicius See also:

Rufus, a famous jurist and son of the accuser. Murena was defended by Marcus Licinius See also:

CRASSUS (literally " dense," " thick," " fat ")

Crassus (afterwards triumvir), See also:

QUINTUS

Quintus See also:

Hortensius and Cicero, and acquitted, although it seems probable that he was guilty. During his consulship he passed a See also:

law (lex Junia Licinia) which enforced more strictly the See also:

PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision of the lex See also:

Caecilia Didiathat See also:

LAWS

laws should be promulgated three nundinae before they were proposed to the See also:

COMITIA

comitia, and further enacted that, in See also:

order to prevent See also:

FORGERY (derived through the French from Latin fabricare, to construct)

forgery, a copy of every proposed See also:

STATUTE

statute should be deposited before witnesses in the See also:

AERARIUM (from Lat. aes, in its derived sense of " money ")

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