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The Fiscvs: a Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

Hugh Last
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In the first part of his comments on Mr. P. W. Duff's study of Personality in Roman Private Law (Cambridge, 1938) Dr. Daube remarks (JRS 33, 1943, 88) that ‘the Fisc, as Mr. Duff explains,… was owned by the emperor. (This view, established by Mommsen, was attacked by Hirschfeld who maintained that the Fisc from the first belonged to the State. Mr. Duff, pp. 51 ff., argues convincingly in favour of Mommsen.).’ Dr. Daube's summary of Mr. Duff's account may be accepted; for Mr. Duff, though he is less dogmatic than Mommsen, begins his attempt ‘to reconstruct the Roman view’ (o.c. 59) with the words ‘it seems clear that Augustus regarded as his all taxation, confiscated property and the like, which did not go into the aerarium’. He is unmistakably on Mommsen's side; and his adhesion to a doctrine, entitled indeed by its authorship to respectful consideration but still somewhat surprisingly described by Mr. Duff (o.c. 51) as ‘orthodox’, invites some brief notice. The observations which follow will not be long; for they may be unnecessary.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 1-2 , November 1944 , pp. 51 - 59
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Copyright © Hugh Last 1944. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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