Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

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A “ • vicarius ” is a slave “owned” (technically, in the peculium of) another slave. See Chapter 10.

[9] TPSulp 51

Written-commitment of Gaius Novius Eunus for a loan of HS 10,000 at Puteoli 18 June 37. I, Gaius Novius Eunus, have written that I have accepted HS 10,000 in cash as a loan from Evenus Primianus (who was not present), freedman of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, by way of Hesychus his slave, and I owe to him this sum, which I will return to him when he requests it. Hesychus, slave of Evenus Primianus, freedman of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, asked for a formal promise for the above- specified HS 10,000; I, Gaius Novius Eunus, made the promise. For these HS 10,000 in cash I gave him roughly 7000 modii of Alexandrian grain as pledge and arrabo and roughly 4,000 modii of chickpeas, spelt, and lentils in 200 sacks, all of which I have stored in my area at the Bassian public granary at Puteoli, which I admit is at my own risk from all danger. Done at Puteoli. Here we have a loan. That transaction is protected by a • “real” contract on its own, but here we have the form of a stipulatio used. Here a slave explicitly participates to extend the owner’s • reach (cf. [5, 6] ) What this document calls “ • arrabo ” seems to be a fairly nor mal pledge of the type seen in [2] . It is perhaps striking,

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