Coruncanius first plebeian pontifex maximus. Aquilia (3, 210)? Silver coinage introduced. Flauius publishes the legis actiones and the calendar of court days. Liciniae Sextiae: institution of the Praetorship. Canuleia: plebeians allowed conubium with patricians.
Long may he continue proferre de thesauro suo noua et uetera in subtle combination. For over fifty years his profound scholarship and rare breadth and humanity of view have been an inspiration to all Romanists, and for most of that time his unflagging friendship and kindly interest have been of inestimable value to me personally.
Many of those who have taught me most have passed away, but there is one happily still with us, Professor Salvatore Riccobono, to whom I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my deep gratitude. The acknowledgement of general debts would have amounted to an autobiography. I apologize for any oversights, but in an elementary work I regard the copious citation of literature as a fault. Special debts of which I was conscious have been acknow¬ ledged in the footnotes, but there must be some of which I was un¬ conscious. For the rest my obligations are to previous writers. I offer sincere thanks to Professor Jolowicz for having kindly checked a number of references also to the publisher’s readers for having corrected mistakes that were not always typographical.
ACTIO IN IUS CONCEPTA MANUALS
This would be out of place in a commentary on Gaius and is no longer needed, as it was when Poste published his valuable work, even by students who read only English: they have now excellent manuals at their command. It also assumes that Justinian’s Institutes lie ready to hand but though developments of the law after Gaius have not been entirely neglected, no attempt is made to provide a systematic conspectus of Roman legal history. It assumes that the reader has the text of Gaius open before him so that it is unnecessary to repeat many things that are in the text. PREFACE The main purpose of this work is to help students to read Gaius with Oxford University Press, Amen House, London E.C.4 GLASGOW BOMBAYįIRST PUBLISHED 1953 REPRINTED LITHOGRAPHICALLY AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD FROM CORRECTED SHEETS OF THE FIRST EDITION 1963 DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA OF PARIS HONORARY FELLOW OF MERTON COLL E G B FELLOW ACCADEMIA DEI LINCEI THE INSTITUTES OF GAIUS Part II COMMENTARY By FRANCIS DE ZULUETA D.C.L.