LICIN'IAN ROGATIONS (Lat. rogationcs Licinkr, from royarr, to ask). A rogation was the term for a bill proposed by a Roman magis trate for incorporation in the laws of the State. In B.C. 367. after a struggle of almost ten years, the tribunes Licinius Stolo and Lucius Sextius se cured the adoption of a law that put an end to the long strife between patricians and plebeians. It provided (1) that the office of consular trib une should be abolished, and that one of the two consuls should be a plebeian; (2) that no one should hold more than 500 iitgera (about 250 acres) of the public land: (3) that no one should pasture more than 100 cattle or 500 sheep or goats upon the public lands: and (4) the easy payment of accumnlated debts. The first ple beian consul nnder the new law was Lucius Sextius himself.
ORANIrs. A Roman histo rian. See GRANIUS LICINIANUS.
LICINIO, 1«.-chT•'n•-e,. BERNARDINO DA POR DENONE. An Italian portrait and religion- paint
er of the Venetian school. The dates of his birth and death are unknown, but his pictures are dated 1524-42. He was horn at Pordenone. and is related to the great Pordenone (q.v.). He is chiefly known as having been one of the first to paint, if not the inventor of. family portrait groups. Several of his family pieces survive, all representing the artist. surrounded by his family and pupils, of which good examples are in the Bo•ghese Gallery, Rome. and at Hampton Conn. Good examples of his single portraits are in the galleries of Bergamo. Dresden, and Budapest. He also painted religious pieces, of which the best is a Enthroned," in the Church of the Fran, Venice; others are in the Sciarra and Do•ia galleries. Rome, the Palazza Balbi, Genoa, and the Hermitage. Saint Petersburg.