JUSTINIAN

NEW CONSTITUTION

XLVII.

Principles of the Roman Republic.

original: "καὶ Αὔγου- σον, καὶ σεβα- στὸν. Vulgar. Σεβῆρον legit." and Augustus, and the venerable. The common text reads Severus.

IF anyone should look back to those most ancient and FIRST principles of our Republic: the Trojan king Aeneas gave us certain ORIGINS of the Republic: and we are called Aeneads after him. If he should contemplate the SECOND principles, at the very time when the name of the Romans shone forth among men, Romulus and Numa established them: of whom the one founded the City, and the other organized it and adorned it with laws. If he should even take the THIRD beginnings of the royal empire, namely that great Caesar Augustus original: "Cæsarem Augustum" and Severus, he will find that even thus the state of the Republic is as it now prevails, and would that it might henceforth become immortal, etc.