, 14, will furnish an example; cf. id. vi, 26,
to Servianus: Gaudeo et gratulor, quod Fusco Salinatori filiam tuam
destinasti. Note the way in which Julius Caesar arranged a match for his
daughter--Suetonius, _Divus Julius_, 21.
[34] Paulus in Dig., 23, 2, 2: Nuptiae consistere non possunt, nisi
consentiunt omnes, id est, qui coeunt quorumque in potestate sunt.
[35] Julianus in Dig., 23, 1, 11.
[36] Ulpian in Dig., 23, 1, 12.
[37] Paulus in Dig., 23, 1, 13. Terentius Clemens in Dig., 23, 2, 21.
[38] Paulus, ii, 19, 2.
[39] Ulpian, 24, 17.
[40] Cf. Ulpian, Tit., vi, 6: Divortio facto, si quidem sui juris sit
muller, ipsa habet rei uxoriae actionem, id est, dotis repetitionem;
quodsi in potestate patris sit, pater adiuncta filiae persona habet
actionem.
The technical recognition of the father's power was still strong. Cf.
Pliny, _Panegyricus_, 38: Tu quidem, Caesar ... intuitus, opinor, vim
legemque naturae, quae semper in dicione parentum esse liberos iussit.
The same writer, on requesting Trajan to give citizenship to the
children of a certain freedman, is careful to add the specification that
they are to remain in their father's power--see Pliny to Trajan, xi
(vi).
[41] Paulus, vi, 15. Codex, v, 4, 11, and 17, 5.
[42] Paulus, in Dig., 23, 3, 28. Codex, v, 13, 1, and 18, 1.
[43] Codex, v, 17, 5.
[44] Salvius Julianus: Frag. Perp. Ed.: Pars Prima, vii--under "De is
qui notantur infamia."
[45] Codex, 8, 46 (47), 5.
[46] Aulus Gellius, iv, 4.
[47] Juvenal, vi, 200-203. Gaius in Dig., 24, 2, 2. Ulpian, ibid., 23,
I, 10. Codex, v, 17, 2, and v, I, I.
[48] Codex, v, 3, 2.
[49] Dig., 3, 2, 1.
[50] Ulpian in Dig., 47, 10, 24.
[51] Cf. Alexander Severus in Codex, viii, 38, 2: Libera matrimonia esse
antiquitus placuit, etc. Also Codex, v, 4, 8 and 14.
[52] Modestinus in Dig., xxiii, 2, 1.
[53] Gaius, ii, 159.
[54] Paulus, ii, xx, 1.
[55] Note the rescript of Alexander Severus to a certain Aquila (Codex,
ii, 18, 13): Quod in uxorem tuam aegram erogasti, non a socero repetere,
sed adfectioni tuae debes expendere.
[56] See, e.g., Dig., 47, 10, and Ulpian, ibid., 48, 14, 27.
[57] Cf. Gaius, i, 141: In summa admonendi sumus, adversus eos, quos in
mancipio habemus, nihil nobis contumeliose facere licere; alioquin
iniuriarum (actione) tenebimur.
[58] Paulus, i, 21, 13.
[59] Paulus, i, 21, 14.
[60] Codex, ii, 11, 15
[61] Paulus in Dig., iii, 2, 9.
[62] Aulus Gellius
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