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Printed Digest titles record Marcus’s rescripts on wards, minors, and alimenta-adjacent care

Mommsen’s Digest prints legal answers in Marcus’s name on tutors, minors, and related alimentary questions. The dated carrier is the 1870 edition of a 6th-century compilation. In the causal graph this event strengthens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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Mommsen’s Digest prints legal answers in Marcus’s name on tutors, minors, and related alimentary questions. The dated carrier is the 1870 edition of a 6th-century compilation.

Context

It is not a modern child-welfare service.

Marcus Aurelius is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A title on tutors is not a clinic.

A title on tutors is not a clinic.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Marcus Aurelius

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.24 · verified

    Dated act under Marcus as emperor or as later printed subject. Scribes, heirs, editors, and museums share labour.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Marcus AureliusEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Roman law texts including Codex Theodosianus extracts — GrenobleUniversité Grenoble Alpes / Droit romain · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorMarcus Aurelius
  2. contributed toFactPrinted Digest titles record Marcus’s rescripts on wards, minors, and alimenta-adjacent care
  3. strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Printed Digest titles record Marcus’s rescripts on wards, minors, and alimenta-adjacent care. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ma-digest-guardianship

https://factrail.ai/facts/ma-digest-guardianship

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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