A lex Visellia dating around or before 68 BC is known only from a mention in an inscription[1] that lists the ten-member board of tribunes overseeing specific road repairs (cura viarum).
[3] It was possibly authored by the Gaius Visellius Varro who was a cousin of Cicero and a quaestor by 73 BC.
[7] Slaves received Roman citizenship automatically when they had been manumitted by a citizen owner through certain legal procedures recognized by the state.
Slaves whose manumission did not meet these formal criteria held a form of Latin rights, codified by the lex Iunia Norbana and based on a status originally developed for the Italian allies that was not embedded in the particular social structures of the city of Rome.
The lex Visellia was one of several pathways to full citizenship for informally manumitted slaves, called Junian Latins in modern scholarship.