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CHAPTER XXIX: Division Of Roman Empire Between Sons Of Theodosius
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jubet; and may therefore be suspected.

Zosimus and Suidas apply to Stilicho and Rufinus the same equal title of guardians, or procurators.] [Footnote 26: The Roman law distinguishes two sorts of minority, which expired at the age of fourteen, and of twenty-five.

The one was subject to the tutor, or guardian, of the person; the other, to the curator, or trustee, of the estate, (Heineccius, Antiquitat.Rom.ad Jurisprudent.
pertinent.l.i.tit.xxii.

xxiii.p.

218-232.) But these legal ideas were never accurately transferred into the constitution of an elective monarchy.] [Footnote 27: See Claudian, (i.Cons.Stilich.i.


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