La noción de cargo público en algunas fuentes jurídicas romano-bizantinas
ISSN: 2145-2946
Year of publication: 2016
Issue Title: Julio-Diciembre
Issue: 16
Pages: 223-262
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Digital de Derecho Administrativo
Abstract
This paper analyzes the methods for understanding the notion of public service in some Byzantine legal sources between the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th centuries. From this, it can be ascertained that the use of the word ὀφφίκιον corresponds to a mechanic translation of the legal technical term officium in Latin (transliteration), but as the Byzantine legal sources became progressively “exhellenized” the term started to disappear and be replaced by more traditional Greek words