mancipable

Updated: May 16, 2025

The -mancipatio- in its developed form must have been more recent than the Servian reform, as the selection of mancipable objects, which had for its aim the fixing of agricultural property, shows, and as even tradition must have assumed, for it makes Servius the inventor of the balance.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

The -mancipatio- in its developed form must have been more recent than the Servian reform, as the selection of mancipable objects, which had for its aim the fixing of agricultural property, shows, and as even tradition must have assumed, for it makes Servius the inventor of the balance.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy