Ulpianic life table

Abstract

The Ulpianic life table is mentioned in an enigmatic fragment of the Digest ( Dig . 35.2.68 pr.; Macer (third century CE ) 2 ad leg. vic her . = Paling. 1.571) excerpted from the third‐century commentary of Aemilius Macer on the lex Iulia de vicessima hereditatum (which was enacted under Augustus in the first century CE , around year 6).