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5. We find in an inscription the words Dio- ozn loe.), which name was also applied to it as worn
bSEDES AP. STRATOR, which is generally under- by Roman slaves. (Gell. xii. 3.) The circumstance
stoodto commemorate the labours of some individual of the slaves in India wearing this as their only
in paving the Appian Way, and mention is made covering (Strabo, xv. 1. ~ 73. p. 156, ed. Sieb.) is
of stratores of this description in another inscrip- agreeable to the practice of modern slavery in the
tion found at Mayence. (Orell. n. 1450; compare West Indies and other tropical countries. [J.Y.]
Fuchs, Geschichte vonz ITcIinz.) [W. R.] SUBSCRI'PTIO CENSO'RIA. [CENSOR,
STRENA, a present given on a festive day and p. 263, b.]
for the sake of good omen (Festus, s. v.), whence a SUBSECI'VA. [AGRARIAnE LEGES, p. 42, a.]
good omen is called by Plautus bona strena. (Stic]. SUBSELLIUM. [TiHRoNUS.]
v. 2. 24.) It was however chiefly applied to a new SUBSIGNA'NI. [ExERcITvs, p. 502, a.]
year's gift, to a present made on the Calends of SUBSTITUITIO. [HEREs, p. 599, a.]
January. In accordance with aSenatusconsusltum SUBTE'MEN. [TELA.]
new year's gifts had to be presented to Augustus SUBUtCULA. [TUNICA.]
in the Capitol, even when he was absent. (Suet. SUCCE'SSIO. This word is used to denote a
A ug. 57; comp. Dion Cass. liv. 35.) The person right which remains unchanged as such, but is
who received such presents was accustomed to changed with reference to its subject. The change
make others in return (strenaessem commenrcismnz); is of such a nature that the right when viewed as
but Tiberius, who did not like the custom on ac- attached to a new person is founded on a preceding
count of the trouble it gave him and also of the ex- right, is derived from it and depends upon it. The
pense in making presents in return, frequently left right must accordingly begin to be attached to the
Rome at the beginning of January, that he might new person at the moment when it ceases to be atbe out of the way (Dion Cass. lvii. 8), and also tached to the person who previously had it; and
strictly forbade any such presents to be offered it cannot ce a better right than it was to the perhim after the first of January, as he used to be son from whom it was derived (Dig. 50. tit. 17.
annoyed by them during the whole of the month. s. 175. ~ 1). Thus in the case of the transfer of
(Suet. Tib. 34; Dion Cass. lvii. 17.) The custom, ownership by tradition, the new ownership begins
so far as the emperor was concerned, thus seems to when the old ownership ceases, and it only arises
have fallen almost entirely into disuse during the in case the former possessor of the thing had the
reign of Tiberius. It was revived again by Caligula ownership, that is, prior ownership is a necessary
(Suet. Cacl. 42; Dion Cass. lix. 24), but abolished condition of subsequent ownership. This kind of
by Claudius (Dion Cass. lx. 6); it must, however, change in ownership is called Successio. It folhave been restored afterwards, as we find it men- lows from the definition of it that Usucapion is
tioned as late as the reigns of Theodosius and not included in it; for Usucapion is an original
Arcadius. (Auson. Ep. xviii. 4; Symmach. Ep. acquisition. The successio of a heres is included,
x. 28.) for though there might be a considerable interval
STRIAE, [COLUMNA.] between the death and the aditio hereditatis,
STRIGA, [CASTRA, p. 254.] yet when the hereditas was once taken possesSTRIGIL. [BAr,NEAE, pp. 185, a, 192, a.] sion of, the act of aditio had by a legal fiction reSTROIPHIUM (raCtyta, -raTrialop, &7rdoaestoo) lation to the time of the death. Thus whereas we
was a girdle or belt worn by women round the generally view persons who possess rights as the
breast and over the inlner tunic or chemise. (Non. permanent substance and the rights as accidents,
xiv. 8; tercti strophio Izctantes vincta papillas, in the case of Succession the right is the permanent
Catull. lxiv. 65.) It appears from an epigram of substance, which persists in a series of persons.
Martial (xiv. 66) to have been usually made of The notion of Succession applies mainly though
leather. (Becker, Gallus, vol. i. p. 321.) not exclusively to property. With respect to the
STRUCTOR. [COENA, p. 307, b.] law that relates to Familia, it applies so far as the
STULTO'RUM FE'RIAE. [FORNACALIsA.] parts of the Familia partake of the nature of proSTUPRUM. [ADULTERIUM; CONeCUBINA; perty, such as the power of a master over his slave,
INCESTUM.] and the case of Patronatus and Mancipii causa.
STYLUS. [STILUS.] Thus the patria potestas and the condition of a
SUBCENTU'RIO. [ExaRCITUS, p.506, a.] wife in mann may be objects of succession. It
SUBITA'RII. [TUMUvLTvU.] applies also to the case of adoption,
SUBLIGA'CULUM or SUCCINCTO'RIUM Successio is divided into Singular Succession
(6iL4SXoa, Wreplqxta), drawers. (Joseph. Ant. iii. 7. and Universal Succession. These terms conveni~ 1.) This article of dress, or a bandage wound ently express the notion, but they are not Roman
about the loins so as to answer the same purpose, terms. The Roman terms were as follows: in
was worn by athletes at the public games of Greece universurn jus, in eam duntaxat rem succedere
in the earliest ages [ATHT,ETAE]: but the use of (Dig. 21. tit. 3. s. 3); per universitatenim in rem
it was soon discontinued, and they went entirely succedere (Gaius, ii. 97; Dig. 43. tit. 3. s. 1); in
naked. (Schol. in Honm. II. xxiii. 683; Isid. Orig. omie jus mortui, in singularum rerum dominiurm
xviii. 17.) The Romans, on the contrary, and all succedere (Dig. 29. tit. 2. s. 37); in universa bonen,
other nations except the Greeks, always adhered in rei tantum dominium snccedere. (Dig, 39. tit. 2.
to the use of it in their gymnastic exercises. s. 24.)
(Thucyd. i. 6; Schol. in loc.; Clem. Alex. Paedg. It is Singular succession when a single thing as
iii. 9; Isid. Orig. xix. 22.) It was also worn by an object of ownership is transferred, or several
actors on the stage (Cic. de Off. i. 35), by those things together, when they are transferred as inwho were employed in treading grapes [Toacu- dividual things, and not as having any relation to
LAR] (Geoponz. vi. 11), and by the Roman popa one another ill onsequence of this accidental comat the sacrifices, and it then received the de- mon mode of transfer. The person into whose
nomination limus (Virg. Aen. xii. 120; Servius, place another comes by Singular succession, is
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