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grbs-17027	Livorsi, Lorenzo	From Latin to Greek and Back Again: Translations, Interpolations, and Abuses of a Law of Theodosius II (Cod.Theod. 16.5.66)	2025	32	.pdf	application/pdf	10703	517	61	This unique array of sources (the abridgement, Greek version of the full constitution, and the two Latin back-translation) enables us to tackle questions such as: how the compilers of the Theodosian Code selected and rearranged their material; which principles governed the translation of legal texts from Latin to Greek (and vice versa) in the fifth and sixth centuries; how previous legislation was updated, redeployed, and, sometimes, abused—all problems that have so far escaped the interest of most scholars.5 In other words, this article takes this constitution as a case study to illustrate methods and aims of legal translation while also showing that this practice changed remarkably in over a century in response to new readerships. Latin version 1 (transmitted in multiple collections, most notably the Collectio Dionysio- Hadriana)	cache/grbs-17027.pdf	txt/grbs-17027.txt