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Jan Willem Tellegen: The Roman Law of Succession in the Letters of Pliny the Younger, 1. Pp. xiv + 204. Zutphen: Terra, 1982.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2009

Bruce W. Frier
Affiliation:
The University of Michigan The Institute for Advanced Study

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1983

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References

1 See recently d'Escurac, H. Pavis, ‘Pline le Jeune et la Transmission des Patrimonies’, Ktema 3 (1978), 275283Google Scholar.

2 T. translates all quoted Greek and Latin passages; the translation of this passage in particular (p. 73) is somewhat inaccurate (e.g. ‘implies’ for ait; ‘we shall apply’ for utimur; quasi is here not ‘as if’, but ‘on the ground that’, a standard legal usage).

3 Di Lella, L., Querela Inofficiosi Testamenti (1972)Google Scholar.

4 See also Eck, W., Die staatliche Organisation Italiens in der hohen Kaiserzeit (1979), 143; but the puzzle remainsGoogle Scholar.

5 Cf. Kaser, M., ‘Neue Literatur zur “Societas”’, SDHI 16 (1978), 287 n. 34Google Scholar.

6 Eck, W., ‘Zum neuen Fragment des sogennanten Testamentum Dasumii’, ZPE 30 (1978), 277295Google Scholar; whence AE (1918), 16.

7 Prof. Edward Champlin pointed this out to me.

8 Schulz, F., Principles of Roman Law (1936), 211212Google Scholar; History of Roman Legal Science (1946), 108–9.

9 T.'s brief discussion of Pliny's relationship with the jurists (p. 3; cf. pp. 140–2) does not do justice to the complexity and importance of the subject.

10 Cf. Tellegen, J. W., RIDA 3 26 (1979), 387 ff.Google Scholar, on Ep. 2. 20; RIDA 3 27 (1980), 295 ff., on Ep. 8. 18.