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The Emperors Arcadius, and Honorius issue two laws ordering the Eunomian clerics to be exiled from the cities. The law issued on 21 or 22 April 396, included in the Theodosian Code (16.5.31-32) published in 438.
16.5.31
 
IDEM AA. CAESARIO P(RAEFECTO) P(RAETORI)O.
Auctores doctoresque eunomianorum facinoris investigati clericique maxime, quorum furor tantum suasit errorem, e civitatibus pellantur extorres.
DAT. XI KAL. MAI. CONST(ANTINO)P(OLI) ARCAD(IO) IIII ET HONOR(IO) AA. CONSS. (= 21 April 396)
 
16.5.32
 
IDEM AA. CAESARIO P(RAEFECTO) P(RAETORI)O.
Ne Eunomianorum tanta dementia perseveret, sublimis magnificentia tua omni studio auctores doctoresque eunomianorum investigare festinet clericique eorum maxime, quorum furor tantum suasit errorem, de civitatibus pellantur extorres et humanis coetibus segregentur.
DAT. X KAL. MAI. CONSTANT(INO)P(OLI) ARCAD(IO) IIII ET HONORIO III AA. CONSS.
 
(ed. Mommsen 1905: 865)
16.5.31
 
THE SAME AUGUSTI TO CAESARIUS, PRAETORIAN PREFECT.
Authors and teachers of the crime of the Eunomians, and especially their clerics, whose madness induced them to such false doctrine, shall be tracked down and expelled as exiles from the municipalities.
GIVEN ON THE ELEVENTH DAY BEFORE THE KALENDS OF MAY AT CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE YEAR OF THE FOURTH CONSULSHIP OF ARCADIUS AND THE THIRD CONSULSHIP OF HONORIUS AUGUSTUS (= 21 April 396)
 
16.5.32
 
THE SAME AUGUSTI TO CAESARIUS, PRAETORIAN PREFECT.
In order that such great madness of the Eunomians may not persist, Your Sublime Magnificence shall hasten to track down with all zeal the authors and teachers of the Eunomians. Especially their clerics, whose madness has induced them to such false doctrine, shall be expelled as exiles from the municipalities and shall be segregated from all human gatherings.
GIVEN ON THE TENTH DAY BEFORE THE KALENDS OF MAY AT CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE YEAR OF THE FOURTH CONSULSHIP OF ARCADIUS AUGUSTUS AND THE THIRD CONSULSHIP OF HONORIUS AUGUSTUS.
 
(trans. Pharr 1952: 455)

Place of event:

Region
  • East
City
  • Constantinople

About the source:

Title: Codex Theodosianus, Code of Theodosius, Theodosian Code
Origin: Constantinople (East)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The Theodosian Code is a compilation of the Roman legislation from the times of the emperor Constantine to the times of Theodosius II. The work was begun in 427 and finished in autumn 437 when it was accepted for publication. It was promulgated in February 438 and came into effect from the beginning of the year 439.
 
The compilation consist of sixteen books in which all imperial constitutions are gathered beginning with the year 312. Books 1-5 did not survive and are reconstructed from the manuscripts of the Lex Romana Visigothorum, i.e. the Breviary of Alaric, the legal corpus published in 506 by the Visigothic king, Alaric, containing excerpts from the Theodosian Code equipped with explanatory notes (interpretationes), posttheodosian novels and several other juristic texts.
 
A new compilation was undertaken during the reign of the emperor Justinian. The committee of ten persons prepared and promulgated the Codex in 529. It was quickly outdated because of the legislative activities of the emperor and therefore its revised version had to be published in 534. The Codex together with the novels, the Pandecta, a digest of juristic writings, and the Institutes, an introductory handbook are known under the medieval name "Corpus Iuris Civilis".
Edition:
Theodor Mommsen and Paul Martin Meyer (eds.), Theodosiani libri XVI cum constitutionibus Sirmondianis et leges novellae ad Theodosianum pertinentes, 2 vols., Berlin 1905
 
Translations:
The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions, a translation with commentary, glossary, and bibliography by C. Pharr, Princeton 1952
Les lois religieuses des empereurs romains de Constantin à Théodose (312-438), v. 1, Code Théodosien livre XVI, text latin Th. Mommsen, trad. J. Rougé, introduction et notes R. Delmaire avec collab. F. Richard, Paris 2005
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Religious grouping (other than Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian) - Arian
    Described by a title - Clericus
      Public law - Secular
        Administration of justice - Secular
          Administration of justice - Exile
            Pastoral activity - Teaching
              Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER2288, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=2288
              Record by: Marta Szada
              last edited: 2019-09-03 09:12:10
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