Pulsare/pulsatio legatum: From the Diplomatic to the Aristocratic Injury
Stouder, Ghislaine
Pulsare/pulsatio legatum: From the Diplomatic to the Aristocratic Injury - 2024.
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The expression pulsare legatum used in legal sources to indicate the prejudice, contrary to the law of nations, that a legate suffered, refers, in these same legal sources, if we look at the other uses of the term pulsare, to a physical injury, slight as it is. However, in historical sources, and when it is Roman legates who have suffered damage, the injury is no longer only physical, but can be oral or concern clothes. Aggression then corresponds to the definition of iniuria atrox, to which the legate normally did not belong, but only the magistrate, the patron or the paterfamilias, thus leading to a shift in the qualification of the diplomatic wound into an aristocratic one, symptomatic of the conceptions of the Romans of diplomacy and their position with regard to other peoples.
Pulsare/pulsatio legatum: From the Diplomatic to the Aristocratic Injury - 2024.
49
The expression pulsare legatum used in legal sources to indicate the prejudice, contrary to the law of nations, that a legate suffered, refers, in these same legal sources, if we look at the other uses of the term pulsare, to a physical injury, slight as it is. However, in historical sources, and when it is Roman legates who have suffered damage, the injury is no longer only physical, but can be oral or concern clothes. Aggression then corresponds to the definition of iniuria atrox, to which the legate normally did not belong, but only the magistrate, the patron or the paterfamilias, thus leading to a shift in the qualification of the diplomatic wound into an aristocratic one, symptomatic of the conceptions of the Romans of diplomacy and their position with regard to other peoples.
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