SC de mense augusto ( Riccobono )

SC. DE MENSE AUGUSTO

Decree of the Senate on renaming the month sextilis

( 8 BC )

( S. Riccobono, Fontes iuris Romani antejustiniani, I, Firenze, 1941, pp. 280-281, n. 42 ).

Augustus deinde (mensis) est, qui Sextilis antea uocabatur, donec honori Augusti daretur ex SC. cuius uerba subieci :

Cum imperator Caesar Augustus mense sextili et primum consulatum inierit et triumphos tres in urbem intulerit et ex Ianiculo legiones deductae secutaeque sint eius auspicia ac fidem, sed et Aegyptus hoc mense in potestatem populi Romani redacta sit finisque hoc mense bellis ciuilibus inpositus sit, atque ob has causas hic mensis huic imperio felicissimus sit ac fuerit, placere senatui, ut hic mensis Augustus appelletur.

► Bibliography

Bruns, Fontes iuris Romani antiqui, I, Tübingen, 1909, pp. 193-194, n. 48 ; Riccobono, FIRA I, Firenze, 1941, pp. 280-281, n. 42 ; Johnson, Coleman-Norton & Bourne, Ancient Roman Statutes, Austin, 1961, p. 121, n. 145 ; Wells, The Roman Empire, 2nd ed., Harvard, 1995, p. 29 ; Robinson, The sources of Roman law : Problems and methods for ancient historians, London-New York, 1997, pp. 67 and 75.

► Source : Macrobius, Sat., I, 12, 35.