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Gaius Mamilius Limetanus

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Gaius Mamilius Limetanus was Roman Republican politician who served as one of the plebeian tribunes for 109 BC.[2]

Denarius issued in 82 BC by a son of the same name, with the depiction of Mercury and Ulysses walking with faithful Argus the dog alluding to the family's mythology of descent from Telegonus, a son of Ulysses and Circe[1]

Limetanus established a court, the Mamilian commission, to prosecute those who abetted the Numidian king Jugurtha and had taken bribes from him.[3] The court convicted five men and sent them into exile.

He also may have passed a law regulating the use of agricultural land.[4] In 91 BC , he may have served as one of the decemviri agris dandis assignandis, a ten-man commission for implementing the land grants following Marcus Livius Drusus' agricultural laws.[5]

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