Quintus Hortensius
Politician
Who is Quintus Hortensius?
Quintus Hortensius was a plebeian appointed to the office of dictator of Rome in the year 287 BC.
When the people, pressed by their patrician creditors, "seceded" to the Janiculum, he was commissioned to put an end to the strife. He passed a law whereby the resolutions of the multitude were made binding on all the citizens, without the approval of the Senate being necessary. This was not a mere re-enactment of previous laws. Another law, passed about the same time, which declared the nundinae to be dies fasti, is also attributed to him. He is said to have died while still in office, thus making him one of two formal dictators to die in office in history, with the other being Julius Caesar.
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