Roman Law and Language

This is the sixth volume in the Collected Works of David Daube. The theme, Roman law and language, is bound up with Daube's entire body of work. The selected essays and papers included in this volume were first published in the 1960s and 1970s. Some of the works in this volume include: the Gray lectures Daube delivered to the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge University in 1966; an essay that examines the shifting meaning of the Latin term suffragium; and Daube's 1967 paper "Greek and Roman reflections on impossible laws." This volume also includes a Foreword by David Johnston QC.