Celsus
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 10 anchored passages
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman jurist cited repeatedly on the distinction between occupiable shore and the unownable sea.
Nam Celsus iactas in mare pilas eius esse dicit qui iecerit.
Sic litus Imperi Romani finibus inclusum, populi Romani esse Celsus existimat;
Vidit hoc Celsus, qui clare satis distinguit inter litora, quae Populus Romanus occupare potuit, ita tamen ut usui communi non noceretur, et mare quod pristinam naturam retinuit.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman jurist cited for a maxim distinguishing state and private prior-occupant claims.
Reference may here be made to the remark of Celsus, that “enemy’s goods found among us do not belong to the state, but to the prior occupant.
The other kind of arbitration is where a matter ought to be left to the decision of a person, in whose integrity confidence may be placed, of which Celsus has given us an example in his answer, where he says, “though a freedman has sworn, that he will do all the services, which his patron may adjudge, the will of the patron ought not to be ratified, unless his determination be just.
Letters
Figure recalled by Libanius as being persuaded by Basil to travel to Athens.
And when you thought you ought to see Athens as well, and were persuading Celsus to go, I rejoiced with Celsus for being so attached to your soul.
Institutes of Roman Law
Proculian jurist under Domitian, known for a discourteous response that became proverbial.
Celsus, in the time of Domitian, who gave rise to the proverb, responsio Celsina, a discourteous answer, and of whom 141 fragments are preserved;