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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 :ph34r:

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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.

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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

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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

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