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PART II - SOCIETY IN THE ROMAN WORLD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2010

Edited and translated by
Robert K. Sherk
Robert K. Sherk
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Buffalo
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Summary

Rescript of Hadrian on social status in legal penalties.

Callistratus in the Digest 47.21.2.

P. Garnsey, Social Status and Legal Privilege in the Roman Empire (Oxford 1970) Ch. 5.

The deified Hadrian issued the following rescript: It cannot be doubted that most mischievous is the action of those who have moved boundary markers, which have been positioned for the sake of indicating borders. Nevertheless, concerning the penalty a limit can be instituted based on the status of the individual and the motive for his action: for if they are individuals of the higher (social) order who are convicted, without a doubt they did it for the sake of occupying someone else's, land, and they can be banished for a length of time, as the age of each one permits, i.e. a younger man for a longer time, an older man for a reduced period. However, if other men did the deed and performed it as a service, they ought to be punished and given over to hard labor for two years. If they stole the stone markers out of ignorance or by chance, it will be sufficient to decide the matter by a beating.

A Roman jurist on medicines and abortifacients.

A: Paulus, Sententiae 5.23.19. On the Cornelian Law on murderers and poisoners.

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The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian , pp. 205 - 257
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1988

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  • SOCIETY IN THE ROMAN WORLD
  • Edited and translated by Robert K. Sherk, State University of New York, Buffalo
  • Book: The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian
  • Online publication: 10 November 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552670.012
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  • Edited and translated by Robert K. Sherk, State University of New York, Buffalo
  • Book: The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian
  • Online publication: 10 November 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552670.012
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  • SOCIETY IN THE ROMAN WORLD
  • Edited and translated by Robert K. Sherk, State University of New York, Buffalo
  • Book: The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian
  • Online publication: 10 November 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552670.012
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