[IDEM libro trigensimo tertio digestorum. ] §50.17.191.prNeratius consultus, an quod beneficium dare se quasi uiuenti Caesar rescripserat, iam defuncto dedisse existimaretur, respondit non uideri sibi principem, quod ei, quem uiuere existimabat, concessisset, defuncto concessisse: quem tamen modum esse beneficii sui uellet, ipsius aestimationem esse.
[THE SAME, in the thirty-third book of the Digests.] Neratius, when consulted as to whether a benefit which the Emperor had written in reply that he would grant, as if to a living person, should be considered to have been granted to one already deceased, replied that it did not seem to him that the princeps had granted to a deceased person what he had conceded to one whom he believed to be living; nevertheless, what limit he wished there to be to his own benefit was a matter for his own estimation.