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PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
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PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION This is a'corrected edition, minus the Latin text, of the four-volume The Digest of Justinian, Latin text edited by Theodor Mommsen with the aid of Paul Krueger, English translation edited by AlanWatson,publishedby Universityof PennsylvaniaPress in 1985. This editionincorporatesa number of correctedtranslations. I am grateful to all who called suggested changes to my attention, and in particular to Tony Honor4and Olivia Robinson. The biggest change has been a new translation by Sebastian and Olivia Robinson of the Dddoken, the Greek version of the preface, "The Confirmation of the west." The previouseditionrepeated the translation of the rather different Latin preface. A note about the appearance of the pages. The pagination of the Mommsen edition has been maintained, aswas done in the originalfour-volume hardcover edition.As a result, the pages of the translation vary in length. ...