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Corpus juris civilis · 1572

From Hotoman.
The meaning of the law seems to be that he who has attained a crown in public games and contests (which was, indeed, a prize proposed to victors for the sake of honor) should be allowed to keep that monument as if it were a badge of his own virtue.
Shall be rewarded Arguitor. That is, let that crown be an argument and sign of his virtue. However, Hotoman thinks that the words Himself or by his money are not to be referred to the word Reward (because that crown was not given to horses, nor to slaves, whether living or dead), but to the word Wins. As if it were said: if someone has attained a crown either by himself or by his slaves or horses.
Under the name of money, the law includes not only horses but also slaves.
So that the crown won by them would procure that honor for the master just as if he himself had won it by competing in person.
From Cicero, Book 2, On Laws.
Servius Honoratus.
It undoubtedly pertains to the reduction of expenses, which were useless to both the dead and the living. For, as Servius relates, among the ancestors it had been glorious to be carried out on as many biers as possible. And indeed, men of small fortune were carried out on biers