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DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20335421

Law-Physicians by Julian the Jurist

Law-Physicians is the one slot this site holds under Julian the Jurist. The heading is that name.

The stored blurb treats it as a Latin jurist’s piece on ἰατροί, surviving only as quotation in Justinian’s Digest (533 CE). That Digest is later Latin, named as such. This corpus does not hold a Greek autograph of a ninety-book Digesta.

The Greek of the hosted title speaks of νόμος. It is a fragment-heading here, not a Latin autograph in this corpus.

1 ΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΥ νόμος περὶ τῶν ἰατρῶν.
2 Τὴν ἰατρικὴν ἐπιστήμην σωτηριώδη τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τυγχάνειν τὸ ἐναργὲς τῆς χρείας μαρτυρεῖ. διὸ καὶ ταύτην ἐξ οὐρανοῦ πεφοιτηκέναι δικαίως φιλοσόφων παῖδες κηρύττουσι. τὸ γὰρ ἀσθενὲς τῆς ἡμετέρας φύσεως, καὶ τὰ τῶν ἐπισυμβαινόντων ἀρρωστημάτων ἐπανορθοῦται διὰ ταύτης. καὶ γὰρ κατὰ τὸν τοῦ δικαίου λογισμὸν συνωδὰ τοῖς ἄνωθεν βασιλεῦσι θεσπίζοντες, ἡμετέρᾳ φιλανθρωπίᾳ κελεύομεν τῶν βουλευτικῶν λειτουργημάτων ἀνενοχλήτους ὑμᾶς τοῖς λοιποῖς χρόνοις διάγειν.