Letter 10027: My correspondence pile is, as always, a reproach to my sense of order and an index of my affections; the people I...
Just as I revere the ordinances of Your Divinity [the reigning emperors], so I devote unceasing observance to the most salutary decrees of your deified father [divus genitor, the late emperor raised to divine honors]. For what did he establish that public solicitude could rightly neglect? Among the other measures which he conferred upon the public good, he also granted to the professors of medicine an order of succession, in case the death of one of them should leave some post vacant. By this law it was provided that the foremost practitioners of that same art should judge concerning the qualifications of new candidates. This rule [...]
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Latin / Greek Original
Vt vestri numinis veneror sanctiones^ ita observantiam iugem saluberrimis divi
genitoris vestri inpendo decretis. quid enim ille constituit, quod possit publica cura
deserere"? is inter alia, quae in bonum publicum contnlit, etiam medendi professoribus dedit ordinem successionis, si locum quempiam decedentis fortuna nudasset. qua
lege cautum est, ut primi artis eiusdem de novorum scientia iudicarent. hanc for-
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