Lives behind the Laws: The World of the Codex Hermogenianus

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261 Index Page numbers in italics refer to a map. Page numbers followed by a t refer to tables. CG refers to Codex Gregorianus. CH refers to Codex Hermogenianus. CJ refers to Codex Justinianus. a libellis. See magister a libellis abbreviations in petitions and responses, 31, 37 Abdullah II of Jordan, 164 accessibility: of codified rescripts, 41; of rulers, 162–65 acta consistorii, 66 adnotatio, 9 advocates, 17–18, 1 9, 65. See also lawyers African names, 82 Agrippa, 129 Ahmad, Isma’il b., 163 Alexander and Syntrophus, 107–108 almsgiving, 10–11 Ammianus Marcellinus, 53 Anicetus and Julianus, 118–1 9, 120 Anthemius, Gaius, and Samus, 130–31 Antigone, 106–107 Antistia, 125–26 Antonia, 129–30, 234n43 Apamea, 8 Aphrodisias, 8 appeals, 27 arbitration, 19, 21, 214n28 Arcadius Charisius, 58 archives, 36, 38, 39–40, 46, 219n82 Augustus: authorship of responses, 147, 148, 162; emulation of, 159; at the games, 6; receipt of petitions, 150; staff of, 209n26 Aurelia Artemis, 19, 26 Aurelia Euodia, 56, 11 4–17 Barrington Atlas, 52 Bedouin sheikhs, 3 bishops, 10–11 Bithus, 11 7–18, 1 44 Bithynia, 63 bribery, 34, 70 Brown, Peter, 139, 150, 165 burden of legal system: on petitioners, 108–109, 1 35, 160, 231n1 3; on rulers, 148, 154 bureaucratization of petition and response, 6, 211n7 6 Byzantine Empire, 13 262 · index Byzantium: and Greek-Latin linguistic divide, 87–88; petitioners from, 87, 89t; and responses to petitions, 55t, 59, 59t, 88, 89t; route of Diocletian and scrinium, x, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 55t, 58, 84 Caesar, Julius, 6, 147, 159, 162, 208n25, 219n2 Caligula, 50 Campbell, Brian, 74 Caracalla, 8, 33, 5 1, 5 7, 149 Cassius Dio, 7, 147, 208n21, 209n26 censures, responses as, 11 7–18 Central Asia, 163 centurions, 24, 26, 74 charity, 152 children, 116–1 7, 126–27 , 133, 23 4n107 Christian Church, 10–11 Code of Hammurabi, 1 Codex Gregorianus (CG): commissioning of, 41; compilation of, 38, 39–41; as first official collection, 141; and names of petitioners, 80; number of rescripts preserved in, 46; omission of petitions from, 42; partial preservation of, in CJ, 8; as reference tool, 58 Codex Hermogenianus (CH), 41; compilation of, 38, 39–41; composition of responses in, 45; editing and interpolating of, 42–43, 45, 22 1n1 7; and emperor’s travels, 47, 49–50, 50–54, 53t, 54t; importance of, 141; and names of petitioners, 80; number of rescripts preserved in, 46, 47; omissions in, 42, 43–44; partial preservation of, in CJ, 8; representativeness of, 134 Codex Justinianus (CJ): editing of, 43; format of entries, 43–44; language in, 35; magistrates addressed in, 11 3; and names of petitioners, 80, 81; notations in, 44, 45t; number of rescripts preserved in, 46; omissions in, 43–44; and political reform, 142; post-Diocletianic entries in, 9; representativeness of, 134; responses included in, 8, 33, 41, 42, 55, 71–73, 72t, 220n15; and the Skaptopareni, 28 Codex Theodosianus, 9, 10, 41, 80, 220n8 codification, benefits of, 41 cognitio extra ordinem trial procedure, 19 Collatio, 80, 81 collective petitioning, 8, 14, 79–80 coloni, 26 commissioning of codices, 41 consilium principis, 145 Constantine: on burden of legal system, 154; and Christian Church, 10; on levying of charges, 19; on limitations of use of rescripts, 209n38; petition system under, 9; and responses to petitions, 42, 239n51 Constantius II, 53, 69 Constitutio Antoniniana, 148 Consultatio, 42, 141 contract law, 129–30 conventus, 24 Corcoran, Simon, 68, 157 Corpus Iuris Civilis, 8 costs associated with petition system, 19–20, 26, 36, 154 counter petitions, 26–27 courts: and criticism of petitioners, 11 7–18; effects of petitions on, 26; importance of rescripts in, 105; locations of, 65–66; provincial courts, 65; and responses to petitions, 37; in Sirmium, 85; and travels of the emperor, 48–49, 50–54 Crescens, 125 Crocodilopolis, 4 index · 263 cursus honorum, 6–7 Cyrus II of Persia, 164, 165 D notation, 44. See also notations Danube provinces: accommodations in, 49–50, 221n25; b uildings in cities of, 65; cities visited by emperors, 96–97, 205;court spaces in, 65–66; division of, 237n28; emperor’s motivations for visiting, 48, 49, 237n28; itinerary of travels to, 34, 49, 50–53, 59; linguistic diversity of, 63, 64, 82–83; number of, 146; petitioners of, 61; population of, 63–65, 81; r oute taken by Diocletian and scrinium, 47, 49, 51–5 2, 61...