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Striking examples include the preface to Diocletian's Edict on Prices of 296, which parades the emperor's titles, attacks those responsible for inflation, and amplifies the emperors humanitarian concems. 1Z The Code I. See CR & CST, pp. 108-19. setzen, Cottingen: Schwartz, 1960, esp. pp. 39-61. II IZ For translation see Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold, Roman Civilization (Records of Civilization XLV), New York: Columbia Univ. , 1955, 18 11, pp. 464-66. DELIBERATIVE ORATORY of Justinian similarly contains elaborate prefatory material.
6). From Gubazes' refusal to give military assistance at the final interview he argues that the king's treason was clear. 9- 11). At this point, however, near the end of his speech, Rusticus seeks to transfer the stasis to letter and intent, which is one form of legal stasis of quality. He accuses the prosecution of too literal an interpretation and maintains that the details in Justinian's order were merely to test Gubazes' intentions. 1-4). He then concludes with a protestation ofloyalty and the claim that the execution was honorable, just, and timely.
423-24 Spengel), but discusses only the situation in which an ambassador is seeking compassion for a city and recommends use of the tapas of the fickleness offortune, as seen in the case of Troy. Conventions of the form were largely learned from imitation of literary models. Collections of ambassadorial speeches were made for imitation as early as the Hellenistic period. On the Embassies of the Romans is a collection of ambassadorial speeches from historians of antiquity, edited in its present form in the Tenth Century.