sullafelix 0 Report post 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Faustus 0 Report post Posted April 23, 2008 (edited) Sorry - deleted by poster Edited April 23, 2008 by Faustus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Melvadius 4 Report post 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sullafelix 0 Report post 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Faustus 0 Report post 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites