Theodosian Code

Glossary

• Augustuses holders of the imperial title Augustus, a designation parallel to but not synonymous with Caesar; the religious component of the system of imperial titles
• caducous supplies of the people private property that for a variety of legal reasons went to the treasury rather than to the natural heirs
• City, the the City of Rome
• desuetude disuse
• Falcidian portion the amount that a principal heir could keep (amounting to one-fourth of an estate) if specific bequests or a badly drafted will could have caused secondary heirs' bequests to unfairly diminish the inheritance of the principal heir
• masters of the horse and foot in the late Roman Empire, high military officials
• sophists professors of rhetoric (whose work included that of the grammarian) who were frequently appointed to high-ranking posts in the government because of their reputation for competence
• usufruct right to use and have benefits of something belonging to another
• Your Magnificence … Your Sublimity respectively, forms of address for the praetorian prefect (prime minister) and for any prefect or equivalent rank of civil servant, including the praetorian prefect