Page:1909historyofdec04gibbuoft.djvu/650

 582 APPENDIX by whiob, on a mother's death, her property belonged to the children, their father having only the administration and usufruct of it, and no right of alienation. The same law is found in the Code of Gortyn (6, 31 sqq.). The degeneration of Roman law (adulterina doctrina), caused by the tenacity of " Volk6rechte " in the eastern provinces, was a motive of the compilation of Justinian's Digest. 23. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES TO VOLUMES I., II., III. AND IV. Vol. I. Chap, viii., n. 64, p. 206. On Timisitheus and the Persian war, see Domaszewski, Die Inschriften des Timisitheus, in Rheinisches Museum, N.F. 58, 218 sqq., 1903 ; S. Krauss, Neue Anfsohlusse fiber Timesitheos und die Perserkriege, ib. 627 sqq. The new material utilised by Krauss is the Jewish Apocalypse of Elijah, which has been edited with a German translation by M. Buttenwieser, 1897 (Leipzig). Chap, ix., n. 1, p. 231. To the seleoted list of books on the ancient Germans add K. Lamprecht, Deutsche Geschichte, vol. i., 1891. Chap, xiv., n. 115, p. 471. The date of the battles of Hadrianople and Chrysopolis has been discussed (since this note was written) by Jouguet (Acad, des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, Comptes-rend., 231 sqq., 1906), who uses the evidence of the papyrus of Theadelphia, and by Pears, The Campaign against Paganism a.d. 324 (English Historical Review, Jan. 1909). Both critics decide in favour of a.d. 324. Chap, xvii., n. 122, p. 120. Three examples of such libelli have been found in Egypt, two in the Fayum (Krebs, Sitzungsberichte of Berlin Acad., 1893 ; Wessely, Sitzungsberichte of Vienna Aoad., 1894) and one in Oxyrhynchus (Grenfell and Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, iv., No. 698, 1904). The last of these runs in the translation of the editors : " To the superintendents of offerings and sacrifices at the city from Aurelius . . . — thion son of Theodoras and Pantonymis of the said city. It has ever been my custom to make sacrifices and libations to the gods ; and now also I have in your presence in accordance with the command poured libations and sacrificed and tasted the offerings together with my son Aurelius Dioscorus and my daughter Aurelia Lais. I therefore request you to certify my statement. The 1st year of the Emperor Caesar Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius Pius Felix Augustus, Pauni 20. " Appendix 1, p. 481. Historia Augusta. For further criticism of the lives of Heliogabalus and Alexander Severus, see : Orma F. Butler, Studies in the life of Heliogabalus (University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, iv. 1), 1908 ; J. CI. P. Smits, De fontibus e quibus res ab Heliogabalo et Alexandro Severo gestae colliguntur (Amsterdam dissertation), Kerkrade-Heerlen, 1908. Appendix 1, p. 485. To the monographs add : R. V. Nind Hopkins, The Life of Alexander Severus (Cambridge Historical Essays, No. xiv.), 1907. Appendix 5, p. 490. On the province of Arabia, we have now Briinnow and Domaszewski, Die Provincia Arabia, vol. i. Die Romerstrasse von Madeba fiber Petra und Odruh bis El-Akaba, 1904, and vol. ii. Der aussere Limes und die Romerstrasse von El-Maan bis Bosra, 1905. On Pontus, add J. G. C. Anderson, Studia Pontica : A journey of exploration in Pontus, 1903 (Brussels). Appendix 12, p. 494. But the conclusion of Conybeare as to the date of Moses of Chorene will have to be modified in the light of the investigation of H. Hubsohmann (Indogermanische ForBohungen, 16, 197 sqq., 1904), who separates the geographical from the historical part, assigning the latter perhaps to the sixth, the former to the seventh at earliest. Appendix 12, p. 494. For the defence of the eastern frontier of the Empire (both the fortresses and the troops), the geography of the border provinces, and the military establishments of the Parthians and the SassanidB, the work of V. Chapot, La frontiere de l'Euphrate, 1907, is of capital importance. For the geography of the Persian kingdom : J. Marquart, Eran§ahr nach der Geographie des Ps. -Moses Xorenadi, 1901 (in the Abhandlungen of the Gottingen Gesellschaft der Wissencbafteu, phil.-hist. Kl., N.F. iii. 2).