"Item Theodosianus?" (Observations on "Coll." 5, 3, 1)
Robert M. Frakes
This passage which compares a late Roman law against homosex uality with in Leviticus (XX 13) is important not only for re vealing the moral views of anonymous compiler Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum, but also clarifying dating composition work. The standard scholarly view this pas sage argues that phrase item Theodosianus an interpolation (as indicated by its usually being placed parenthesis modern texts), possibly pedantic scribe sometime manuscript tradition making connection to Codex Theodosianus1. con trast earlier assertion Godefroy 1665 who suggested showed had taken consti
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