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The servus vicarius (slave of a slave) was a universal occurrence. I know [5] of no slave society in which slaves who could afford them were denied the purchase of other slaves. [6] Patterson did not undertake to prove his claim systematically since it was not central to his book.
The dioceses were headed by a vicarius, or, more properly, by a vices agens praefecti praetorio ("deputy of the praetorian prefect"). An exception was the Diocese of the East, which was headed by a comes ("count"). In 370 or 381, Egypt and Cyrenaica were detached from the Diocese of the East and made a diocese under an official called the ...
Servus, and various local variants thereof, is a salutation used in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe. It is a word of greeting or parting like the Italian ciao (which also comes from the slave meaning through Venetian s'ciavo). [1] The salutation is spelled servus in German, [2] Bavarian, Slovak, [3] Romanian [4] and Czech. [5]
The highest civil authority was the vicarius urbis Romae, resident in Rome. The office probably originated from the so-called agens vices praefectorum praetorium, who, beginning in the Severan age, replaced the Praetorian prefect in commanding the praetorian guard and troops of the capital during his absence from the Urbe. [1]
Roger had invited Vicarius to join him in the north as legal adviser and ecclesiastical judge, and his name appears frequently in both papal letters and the chronicles of the period, indicating that he served in this capacity. For his services, he was rewarded with a prebend in the collegiate church of secular canons at Southwell. In 1191, he ...
The Pope bears the title vicar of Christ (Latin: Vicarius Christi). [1]In Catholic canon law, a vicar is the representative of any ecclesiastic entity. The Romans had used the term to describe officials subordinate to the praetorian prefects.
In Roman law, status describes a person's legal status. The individual could be a Roman citizen (status civitatis), unlike foreigners; or he could be free (status libertatis), unlike slaves; or he could have a certain position in a Roman family (status familiae) either as head of the family (pater familias), or as a lower member (filii familias).
Under the rule of the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I, the successor to Zeno, the title of Domesticus began evolving and was often used as synonyms of Vicarius and Locoservator. [2] The translation of Domesticus, Vicarius, and Locoservator respectively mean belonging to a house, Vice meaning deputy or substitute for a superior, and subordinate ...