 Plutarch described Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (141–132 BCE) as the first to leave Italy, after being forced by the Senate to do so, and thus break the sacred taboo.Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus (132–130 BCE) was the first to leave Italy voluntarily.Afterwards it became common and no longer against the law for the Pontifex Maximus to leave Italy.