Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius enacted that in every case pupillaris substitutio should be implied in vulgaris substituto and vice versa, unless the contrary intention was expressed, Dig.

‘Subsequently Marcus Aurelius enacted that acts of heirship would make him [the person instituted, in the case of cretio imperfecta] exclusive heir’), was clearly not enacted when this paragraph was written by Gaius, and furnishes an indication of the date at which this book of his Institutions was published.

Marcus Aurelius, in the time of Gaius, abolished the distinction between the jurisdiction term (dies fasti) and the trial term (rerum actus).

Gather yourself into yourself.

The ruling faculty does not disturb itself;

Can you yourself take a hot bath unless the wood undergoes change?

” He had related in the same book that rain had been obtained for the Emperor Marcus Aurelius by the prayers of the Christian soldiers.

” And Marcus Aurelius speaking of subordinate magistrates, said, that they were under the controul of the sovereign:

Thus when the Roman Princes began to exercise regal power, the people it was said had transferred all their own personal sovereignty to them, which gave rise to the saying of Marcus Antoninus the Philosopher, that no one but God alone can be judge of the Prince.

We, on the contrary, can produce a protector, if the letters of Marcus Aurelius, that most weighty emperor, be sought out, in which he testifies that the Germanic drought was broken by a rain obtained, as it chanced, through the prayers of Christian soldiers.

through whose fault Cybele did not learn of the emperor's death before — that the Christians might not laugh at such a goddess.

And so, in our own age too, she has set forth a great proof of the majesty conferred by her upon the city, when, Marcus Aurelius having been taken from the commonwealth at Sirmium on the sixteenth day before the Kalends of April, that most holy archigallus, on the ninth day before those same Kalends, on which he was offering his impure blood by gashing his arms too, gave the wonted commands likewi …

Marcus Aurelius too, in the German expedition, by the prayers of the Christian soldiers made to God, obtained rains in that drought.

At any rate we do know that in the noblest days of Rome, its wisest and best of emperors, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius, all succeeded to the purple, not by birth, but by adoption.