Gordian
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Emperor Gordian
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman emperor described by Herodian as granting renewed hearings to the unjustly condemned.
The Emperor Gordian is spoken of as παλινδικίαν διδοὺς τοɩ̂ς ἀδίκως κατακριθεɩ̂σι (Herodian, vii.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman jurist/authority cited on the legal meaning of discovery.
For to discover a thing is not only to seize it with the eyes but to take real possession thereof, as Gordian points out in one of his letters.