Publius Aelius Ligus

Publius Aelius Ligus was a Roman statesman in the first half of the 2nd century BC

Well in the year 175 BC, praetor, three years later reached the consulate, where he had as an official area of Liguria, where he probably moved into his cognomen. Remarkably the consulate was because he and his colleague Gaius Popillius Laenas were the first plebeian who led the office together. The entire year in office was marked by the struggle with the Senate, as his colleague blocked a Senate resolution, which was the conduct of his brother Marcus Popillius Laenas against the Ligurians from the previous year, and Aelius joined this. In the year 167 BC Aelius was with Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus, Gaius Cicereius, Publius Terentius Publius Tuscivicanus and Manilius (perhaps father of the consul of the same name by 120 BC), a member of a five -member commission, which in Illyria with the praetor Lucius Anicius Gallus should arrange the circumstances.

Unlike the Aelii Paeti and Aelii Tuberones this line of Aelier again sank into insignificance. A descendant of one may well see in the tribunes Aelius Ligus, the BC agitated Publius Clodius Pulcher with 58 against Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Source

Livy, History of Rome, Book 42,10 and 21 (conflict with the Senate )