Abbreviation PP

[syntaxianus]

Thanks for the clarifications on PP.

I see that there is a difference between given (data) and posted (proposita). First laws are given or issued, then they are posted.*

PP. KARTHAGINE. DAT. VII K. SEPT. AUXONIO ET OLYBRIO CONSUL

[Lex / Law] Posted at Carthage. Issued on August 26, in the consulship of Auxonius and Olybrius.

We do not have the date of posting in Carthage, just the date of issuance.

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Mommsen is rather careless of the distinction between laws given (data) and laws posted (proposita) on certain dates; the latter were clearly issued earlier than the date of posting, sometimes (as with laws sent to Africa) considerably earlier.

p. 199, fn13 of

"Codex Theodosianus" 9.40.13 and Nicomachus Flavianus
Author(s): J. F. Matthews
Source: Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 2nd Qtr., 1997, Bd. 46, H. 2 (2nd Qtr., 1997), pp. 196-213 // Published by: Franz Steiner Verlag
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4436464

 

[CSGD]

The abbreviation PP only appears twice in that book. It is mostly left out ... and in this particular example, the date of the PP is not even given; so I can see how you can be careless about it.

 

[syntaxianus]

The abbreviation PP only appears twice in that book. It is mostly left out ... and in this particular example, the date of the PP is not even given; so I can see how you can be careless about it.

Sorry...the full note (which specifies a "one-case" carelessness) reads:

Errington (cit. n. 7), 458; Mommsen, ad loc. (p. 601). PLRE I, s.v. Hypatius 4 (p. 449), simply remarks that the law must be wrongly dated. In this case, as on CTh 7.18.8 (n. 10 above), Mommsen is rather careless of the distinction between laws given (data) and laws posted (proposita) on certain dates; the latter were clearly issued earlier than the date of posting, sometimes (as with laws sent to Africa) considerably earlier. See esp. R. Duncan-Jones, 'Communication-speed and Contact by Sea in the Roman Empire', in his Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy (1990), 7-29, at 17ff.

 

[Dantius]

those 3 people somehow reigned together

This is not too surprising; from 286 to the fall of the Western empire in 476, the only times where there was only one Augustus were 324-337 and 394-395 AD. So a lot of the laws will have been jointly passed by the emperors at the time.

 

[german.gabriel]

Thank you so much. You have all been really helpful. I think that in this particular document, PP stands for proposita