It certainly wasn’t a coincidence New York Times Published That story about the trials of a particular Gadalia and Saurus This Monday, April 14th. The defendants did not live in modernity, as their names suggest. Hadrianaround 130 AD. It says these men were indicted The era“Franz Ritz has “to avoid “tampering documents, illegal sales and care of slaves, or all released, from paying for duties in the far Roman provinces of Jews and Arabia, the regions that correspond almost to today’s Israel and Jordan.”
In other words, Gadalius and Saurus were accused of tax evasion. This is a subject that always has in the minds of Americans under the shadow of the April 15th tax return date. The outlook for the IRS audit remains with more than a few people awake at night, but ancient Roman laws have, as expected, become rather strict.
“The penalty ranges from heavy fines and permanent exiles to heavy labor in salt mines, and at worst, damnatio ad bestias is the official executions where the people who were accused are devoured by wildlife,” Lido wrote. Such a fate probably wasn’t out of the question for those convicted of these proportional crimes.
The long, misunderstood document in this case was properly deciphered and even understood, after the rediscovery in 2014, even written in ancient Greek. This paper It was released this January. For scholars of Roman law, the opportunity to fall into the minds of both civilized judges and their criminals is rarely passed down. Even at the edge of the empire, the prosecutors “employed a clever rhetorical strategy suitable for Cicero and Quintilians, demonstrating excellent orders in Greek for Roman legal terms and concepts.” This will undoubtedly be speculating by law students today. Specifically, it is about the existence of ancient chats.
via NYTIMES
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