Horte'nsius
2. Q.
Hortensius, dictator about B. C. 286 (
Fasti).
The commons, oppressed by debt, had broken out into sedition, and ended by seceding to the Janiculum.
He was appointed dictator to remledy the evil, and for this purpose re-enacted the Lex Horatia-Valeria (of the year 446 B. C.), and the Lex Pubülia (B. C. 336), "ut quod plebs jussisset omnes Quirites teneret." (Plin.
H. N. xvi. ' 37; cf. Liv.
Epit. xi.) On the supposed difference of these three laws, see Niebuhr,
R. H. vol. ii. p. 365, vol. iii. p. 418, &c.
He passed another law, establishing the
nundinae as
dies fasti, and introducing the
trinundinum as the necessary term beteen promulgating and proposing a lex centuriata. (
Dict. of Antiq. s. v. Nundinae.)