Lex Scantiniaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Lex Scantinia (sometimes incorrectly referred to as Lex Scantia) was an ancient Roman law (named after aedile Scantinius Capitolinus, who had lived around 225 BC) and introduced in 149 BC during the Roman Republic. The law regulated sexual behavior, including pederasty, adultery and passivity, potentially legislating the death penalty for same-sex behavior among free-born men. Allegations exist that even before Lex Scantinia such laws existed in Rome, but direct evidence of these laws has been lost. For instance, on supplicium fustuarium, public beating to death as the legal standard punishment for same-sex behavior among free-born men in Rome long before Lex scantinia, see Polybius, The Histories, volume VI, chapter 37.