[IDEM libro primo de officio proconsulis. ] §1.16.4.prObseruare autem proconsulem oportet, ne in hospitiis praebendis oneret prouinciam, ut imperator noster cum patre Aufidio Seueriano rescripsit.
[THE SAME, from the first book of his Commentary on the Office of Proconsul.] Moreover, a proconsul must take care not to burden the province by demanding lodging, as our Emperor, together with his father, replied by rescript to Aufidius Severianus.
§1.16.4.1Nemo proconsulum stratores suos habere potest, sed uice eorum milites ministerio in prouinciis funguntur.
None of the proconsuls may have his own grooms (stratores), but in their place, soldiers perform this service in the provinces.
§1.16.4.2Proficisci autem proconsulem melius quidem est sine uxore: sed et cum uxore potest, dummodo sciat senatum Cotta et Messala consulibus censuisse futurum, ut si quid uxores eorum qui ad officia proficiscuntur deliquerint, ab ipsis ratio et uindicta exigatur.
Furthermore, it is indeed better for a proconsul to set out without his wife; but he can also do so with his wife, provided that he knows that the senate, in the consulship of Cotta and Messala, decreed that if the wives of those who set out for public offices commit any offense, accountability and punishment will be exacted from the husbands themselves.
§1.16.4.3Antequam uero fines prouinciae decretae sibi proconsul ingressus sit, edictum debet de aduentu suo mittere continens commendationem aliquam sui, si qua ei familiaritas sit cum prouincialibus uel coniunctio, et maxime excusantis, ne publice uel priuatim occurrant ei: esse enim congruens, ut unusquisque in sua patria eum exciperet.
But before a proconsul enters the boundaries of the province assigned to him, he must send an edict concerning his arrival, containing some recommendation of himself, if he has any familiarity or connection with the provincials, and especially requesting that they should not meet him publicly or privately; for it is fitting that each person should welcome him in his own homeland.
§1.16.4.4Recte autem et ordine faciet, si edictum decessori suo miserit significetque, qua die fines sit ingressurus: plerumque enim incerta haec et inopinata turbant prouinciales et actus impediunt.
And he will act rightly and orderly if he sends an edict to his predecessor and indicates on which day he is to enter the boundaries; for generally these uncertain and unexpected matters disturb the provincials and hinder business.
§1.16.4.5Ingressum etiam hoc eum obseruare oportet, ut per eam partem prouinciam ingrediatur, per quam ingredi moris est, et quas Graeci ἐπιδημίας appellant siue κατάπλουν obseruare, in quam primum ciuitatem ueniat uel applicet: magni enim facient prouinciales seruari sibi consuetudinem istam et huiusmodi praerogatiuas.
He must also observe this upon his entry: to enter the province through that part through which it is customary to enter, and to observe what the Greeks call ἐπιδημίας or κατάπλουν, namely, which city he should first come to or land at; for the provincials set great store by the preservation of this custom and privileges of this kind for themselves.
quaedam prouinciae etiam hoc habent, ut per mare in eam prouinciam proconsul ueniat, ut Asia, scilicet usque adeo, ut imperator noster Antoninus Augustus ad desideria Asianorum rescripsit proconsuli necessitatem impositam per mare Asiam applicare καὶ τῶν μητροπόλεων ἔφεσον primam attingere.
Some provinces even have this feature, that the proconsul comes into that province by sea, like Asia—indeed, to such an extent that our Emperor Antoninus Augustus, replying to the requests of the Asians, wrote back to the proconsul that he was under the necessity of landing in Asia by sea and touching at Ephesus first among the metropolises (καὶ τῶν μητροπόλεων ἔφεσον).
§1.16.4.6Post haec ingressus prouinciam mandare iurisdictionem legato suo debet nec hoc ante facere, quam fuerit prouinciam ingressus: est enim perquam absurdum antequam ipse iurisdictionem nanciscatur (nec enim prius ei competit, quam in eam prouinciam uenerit) alii eam mandare, quam non habet.
After these things, having entered the province, he must delegate jurisdiction to his deputy (legatus), and he must not do this before he has entered the province; for it is extremely absurd to delegate to another what one does not have, before he himself acquires jurisdiction (for it does not belong to him before he arrives in that province).
sed si et ante fecerit et ingressus prouinciam in eadem uoluntate fuerit, credendum est uideri legatum habere iurisdictionem, non exinde ex quo mandata est, sed ex quo prouinciam proconsul ingressus est.
But if he did so even before, and upon entering the province remained of the same mind, it is to be believed that the deputy is deemed to have jurisdiction, not from the time it was delegated, but from the time the proconsul entered the province.