[1058] Cf. Corssen, Aussprache, i. 684.
[1059] Cf. Vaniček, Etym. Wörterb. 227; Herzog, ibid. i. 116, n. 3 (Rechtsetzen). Schrader, Reallexikon, 657, connecting ius with Avest. yaoš, “pure,” develops its meaning through (1) oath of purification in legal procedure, (2) legal procedure, finally (3) human law, right, as distinguished from fas; cf. Christ, in Sitzb. d. bayer. Akad. d. Wiss. 1906. 212 (ius = Skt. yōs). On the meaning, see further Nettleship, Contributions to Latin Lexicography, 497; Clark, Practical Jurisprudence, 16-20.
[1060] For the leges censoriae, see Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 430.
[1061] Livy i. 26. 7: “Hac lege duumviri creati.”
[1062] On the legum dictio, see Serv. in Aen. iii. 89.
[1063] Examples of leges datae are the ordinances of the kings or of extraordinary constitutive magistracies, as the triumviri rei publicae constituendae, municipal laws and provincial regulations established by Rome; cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 311 and notes.
[1064] Law of the XII Tables, cited by Gaius, in Dig. xlvii. 22. 4: “Dum ne quid ex publica lege corrumpant”; Cato, Orig. iv. 13: “Duo exules lege publica (condemnati) et execrati”; Gaius ii. 104; CIL. vi. 9404, 10235; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 310, n. 3; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 598 f.
[1065] Ateius Capito’s definition in Gell. x. 20. 2 (“Lex est generale iussum populi aut plebis rogante magistratu”) fails to cover all cases, as Gellius immediately shows.
[1066] E.g. the granting of the imperium to Pompey or the recall of Cicero from exile; Gell. x. 20. 3.
[1067] Livy iv. 60. 9; cf. 58. 14.