sullafelix Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 This is a really specialist one, but I shall put my query up here anyway and hope..... Can anyone give me a source reference for the earliest mention of commercium (by name) or can anyone enlighten me as to where we get our idea of what commercium in ancient Italy was? I have trawled my way right back to Mommsen & Maine and even beyond and none of them give source references for their insistence that commercium was a formal system of rights pertaining to contract law between Romans and peregrini. I know this seems like a wierd assertion but I am becoming less and less convinced by this interpretation of an early start date for commercium....help anyone? sf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustus Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 (edited) Sorry - deleted by poster Edited April 23, 2008 by Faustus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melvadius Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 (edited) This is a really specialist one, but I shall put my query up here anyway and hope..... Can anyone give me a source reference for the earliest mention of commercium (by name) or can anyone enlighten me as to where we get our idea of what commercium in ancient Italy was? <SNIP> sf I don't have a definitive source myself but my edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, under commercium, cites secondary sources of: A. N. Sherwin-White, The Roman Citizenship (2nd edn. 1993); P.A. Brunt, Italian Manpower (1971, 1987) Possibly of more interest is that under ius Latii (the Latin rights of conubium and commercium) it cites sources of: Asc. Pis 3 Clark (Asconius Commentary on Cicero In Pisonem - I think this reference is from Asconius, ed A, C, Clark (Oct 1907)) Gai Inst I.22ff, 96 (Gaius Institutiones) H Galsterer, Herrschaft und Verwaltung im republikanischen Italien (1976) Millar ERW app. 4. Edited April 24, 2008 by Melvadius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sullafelix Posted April 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 Cheers Melvadius More help than you think I expect. I will have a look at Brunt (needs must!) and the Clark reference may well be useful too. Thanks again SF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustus Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 This is a really specialist one, but I shall put my query up here anyway and hope..... Can anyone give me a source reference for the earliest mention of commercium (by name) or can anyone enlighten me as to where we get our idea of what commercium in ancient Italy was? I have trawled my way right back to Mommsen & Maine and even beyond and none of them give source references for their insistence that commercium was a formal system of rights pertaining to contract law between Romans and peregrini. I know this seems like a wierd assertion but I am becoming less and less convinced by this interpretation of an early start date for commercium....help anyone? sf This is twice up for me. I have a Latin dictionary published/printed in 1918 from an earlier edition dated 1890. This dicitionary I find, is much more complete than others, and includes passages with references and their sources. First look HERE, and if I can add to this for you feel free to PM me. A list of abbreviations: L. = Livius S. = Sullustius Crispus Ta. = Cornelius Tacitus V. = Vergilius Maro also Fig. = figuratively(?) Faustus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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