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La formula "ut inter bonos bene agier oportet et sine fraudatione" e la nozione di "vir bonus"
2014
The author examines the formula “ut inter bonos bene agier oportet et sine fraudatione” of the actio fiduciae from the point of view of its internal meaning. In particular, on the grounds of the sources of the third and second century B.C. the author argues (confirming the results of his recent research) that the qualification “vir bonus” underlying the words “inter bonos” indicates an ethical-behavioural perspective, not a social status; and proposes a reading’s hypothesis that attaches an autonomous role to the adverb “bene” (generally considered pleonastic respect to the terms “inter bonos”). The author, finally, shows that the sources do not justify the idea that the meaning of the crit…
L'attribuzione della qualifica 'vir bonus' nella prassi giudiziaria d'età repubblicana (a proposito di Cato, or. frg. 186 Sbelnd. = 206 Malc.)
2011
The qualification ‘vir bonus’, involved by an ancient judicial rule and by a sponsio (linked to this rule) containing the clause ‘ni vir melior esset’, which are both attested in a fragment of Cato the censor, expresses a positive assessment from a moral point of view and not from a social point of view, as is shown by all the sources we have for the III-II century BC. The emergence and the diffusion just in this period of a figure of vir bonus caracterised in a moral sense is probably due to a political and economic transformation of the Roman society.