Festus
historical figure · 2 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Sextus Pompeius Festus
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman grammarian whose work preserves citations distinguishing nexum from mancipium and quoting the Twelve Tables.
—Nexum est, ut ait Gallus Aelius, quodcumque per aes et libram geritur, id quod necti dicitur, quo in genere sunt haec, testamenti factio, nexi datio, nexi liberatio, Festus.
Nexum and mancipium are clearly distinguished in the following well-known citation of Festus from the Twelve Tables—cum nexum faciet mancipiumque, uti lingua nuncupassit, ita jus esto.
Festus.
Letters
Co-addressee of Letter 294, likened to a pupil growing in godliness.
To Festus and Magnus
pupils too gladden their teachers, and children their fathers—the one advancing toward virtue, the other toward growth.
Nor, indeed, does separation of body hinder this, since the One who fashioned us, out of the abundance of His wisdom and love for mankind, did not confine our understanding within the bounds of the body, nor the power of words to the tongue, but gave something more, even from time, to those able to help—so that they can pass on their teaching not only to those far separated in space, but indeed to …