On What Is Just Regarding the Alienation of Property of Minors

...he wrote it, who yet, as they say, heard it in passing in the Academies, and having heard it, understood it somehow or other, for the purpose that they might be said to have fulfilled their duty; today, alas, they persuade themselves—falsely—that if they labor in a certain part of Roman law, they will lose their effort with their oil an idiom for wasting time/effort. But whatever the case may be, whether they do this to their own detriment, let them see to it themselves. While the Civil Roman Law remains safe with its own heralds, in whose defense Artus Dukkius has shown no small diligence in the entire treatise he wrote On the Use and Authority of Roman Law, it nevertheless brings forth in all things certain and most just definitions of the precepts of right reason, accommodated with the greatest dexterity and a most prudent temperament of equity to the common good of citizens.