ROmulus for the better government of the city ap∣pointed a certaine officer called Vrbis Praefectus to haue the hearing of all matters or causes betweene the master and the servant, betweene orphanes and their overseers, betweene the buyer and the seller, &c. After∣ward in time of the Romane Emperours this Vrbis praefectus did assume vnto himselfe such authoritie, that hee would examine and haue the hearing of all causes, of what nature soever, if they were Intra centesimum lapidem, within an hundred miles of Rome (forb 1.1 Lapis in old time signifyed a mile, because at every miles end a great stone in manner of a mark-stone was erected.) In the absence of the King or Consuls, he had all authoritie which belonged vnto them resigned vnto him. I am not ignorant, that some doe make
Romanæ historiæ anthologia An English exposition of the Romane antiquities, wherein many Romane and English offices are paralleld and divers obscure phrases explained. By Thomas Godwyn Master of Arts: for the vse of Abingdon Schoole.
About this Item
- Title
- Romanæ historiæ anthologia An English exposition of the Romane antiquities, wherein many Romane and English offices are paralleld and divers obscure phrases explained. By Thomas Godwyn Master of Arts: for the vse of Abingdon Schoole.
- Author
- Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 7-1642.
- Publication
- At Oxford :: Printed by Joseph Barnes,
- 1614.
- Rights/Permissions
-
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
- Subject terms
- Rome -- Civilization -- Early works to 1800.
- Link to this Item
-
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01818.0001.001
- Cite this Item
-
"Romanæ historiæ anthologia An English exposition of the Romane antiquities, wherein many Romane and English offices are paralleld and divers obscure phrases explained. By Thomas Godwyn Master of Arts: for the vse of Abingdon Schoole." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01818.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2025.
Pages
Page 122
this latter kind of praefecture or Lieuetenantship a differēt office from the former: but I should rather thinke them to be one and the same, only his authoritie to bee more enlar∣ged in the Kings absence, and of this opinion doe I finde Fenestella, Alexand. Neop. andc 1.2 Sigonius.
Notes
-
b 1.1
Despaute∣••••us in sua syntaxi.
-
c 1.2
Sig. de iure Rom. l. 1. c. 20.