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30 juillet 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.efr.9397
- isbn: 9782728314645
- eisbn: 9782728314652
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Cicero Sicily first century BCE Verrine orations Hiero II of Syracuse Roman vs. local law Roman imperialism Roman tax system Lex Rupilia uadimonium promittere Roman law Jewish law religion droit romain droit juifs religion Classics History Law HIS002020 HBLASujets proches
Civil law (Roman law) Law, Roman Law--Rome Civil law--Rome Legislative acts Legislative enactments Acts, Legislative Enactments, Legislative Laws (Statutes)Citer ce document
Julien Dubouloz, « Accommodating former legal systems and Roman law », Publications de l’École française de Rome, ID : 10.4000/books.efr.9397
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This paper considers the legal relations between local communities and Roman authorities within the empire from a Roman point of view. It is mostly based on Cicero’s Verrine Orations, the accusation pronounced in 70 BCE before a repetundae court against Verres, a former governor of Sicily. This piece of judicial rhetoric gives us access to the kind of arguments which were suitable for a Roman audience and Roman readers as far as provincial autonomy was concerned. A study of a specific civil law procedure, the uadimonium procedure, shows how difficult it is to assess the degree of interaction between local and Roman law from a judicial source like the Verrines. Furthermore, local law appears to be, to a large extent, both a rhetorical and an ethical construct, to be interpreted in the context of the critical viewpoint on imperialism which was cautiously developed by Cicero as the accuser in the repetundae speech.