Mad about lists? Here is a good one for Italy lovers. It was b. The Lex Oppia was a sumptuary law established in b. In b. Rome, after the victory over Carthage, was wealthier than ever and the patrician families of Rome got tired of following the law. Two tribunes proposed repealing the Lex Oppia, saying it was no longer needed. The consul Cato the Elder spoke in favor of the law saying that it was promoting equality between different social classes. Nonetheless — while the debate was raging in the Senate — the matrons of Rome gathered on the Capitol hill and marched towards the Forum, blocking all the streets and asking the tribunes to support their cause and abrogate the law. The day after they gathered, sitting in in front of the house of Marcus Junius Brutus and Publius Junius Brutus — tribunes and big supporter of the law — to protest nonstop until the law was abrogated.
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