Proculus
historical figure · 5 works · 12 mentions · 16 anchored passages
Proculo · our own Proculus
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Jurist and namesake of the Proculian school.
Nerua uero et Proculus ceterique illius scholae auctores non aliter putant rem legatarii fieri, quam si uoluerit eam ad se pertinere.
sed Labeo et Proculus tutorem posse dari, quod nihil ex hereditate erogatur tutoris datione.
according to Labeo and Proculus he may, because no part of the inheritance is given away by the nomination of a guardian.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman jurist cited for the maxim defining fraud as advantage taken from another's loss.
For, says Proculus, whoever makes an advantage from the loss of another is guilty of a fraud;
There are two kinds of arbitration, the one of such a nature that it must be obeyed whether the decision be just or unjust, which, Proculus says, is observed when, after a compromise, recourse is had to arbitration.
The Law of Torts
Roman jurist reported in the Digest as holding the barber solely liable in the ball-game incident.
Proculus in tonsore esse culpam:
Proculus held the barber only to be liable.
Adversus Marcionem
Legendary Roman witness said to have testified to Romulus's ascent, invoked as a comparison to the lack of any witness for Marcion's Christ's descent.
It is unworthy, in short, that Romulus should have had a Proculus to affirm his ascent into heaven, but that Christ, a god, should have found no announcer of his descent from his own heaven — as though that other did not ascend by the same ladders of falsehood as this one descended.
Adversus Valentinianos
A Christian elder praised for chastity and eloquence, cited as an authority the author wishes to match
and our own Proculus, the dignity of virgin old age and of Christian eloquence—whom I would wish to match in every work of faith, as in this.