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The Plebiscitum Ovinium (often called the Lex Ovinia) was an initiative by the Plebeian Council that transferred the power to revise the list of members of the Roman Senate (the lectio senatus) from consuls to censors.[1][2]
- ^ Lintott, Andrew (1999). The Constitution of the Roman Republic. Oxford, New York: Clarendon Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-19-158467-1.
- ^ T.J. Cornell, "The Lex Ovinia and the Emancipation of the Senate" in C. Bruun, ed. The Roman Middle Republic; Politics, Religion, and Historiography; c. 400-133 B.C., Rome, 2000, pages 69-90.