Commentaries on the Last Two Titles of the Digest

the limits of my profession. When he, while despising the boundaries of Philology—in which he seemed to bear the Dictatorship—audaciously invades the inheritances of others and begins to treat the Laws of Majesty Iura Majestatis sovereign rights, he stumbles prodigiously so often, a huge wagoner Hamaxarius wagon-driver of the thickest errors. If, Candorous Reader, you should undertake to compare the commentaries on this Title published thus far with these Disputations from beginning to end, as they say, you will see, as I hope, that I have not spent my labor here in vain. I have inserted into these, here and there, things that pertain to Forensic Practice Praxin Forensem legal practice in court. Otherwise, that saying of Petronius Arbiter is most true:

I believe, he says, that young men become most foolish in the Schools, because they hear or see nothing of those things that we have in use.