Chapter 25: On property (rebus)

3. _Res_ is derived from possessing rightly (_recte_); _jus_ from possessing justly (_juste_).... What is wickedly possessed is not the owner’s. He possesses wickedly who uses his own wickedly or takes possession of another’s.... He who is captured by greed is possessed, not possessing.

4. _Bona_ belong to the honorable or noble, and they are called _bona_ so that they may not have a base use but men may use them for good things.

5. _Peculium_ belongs properly to minors or slaves. For _peculium_ is that which the father or master allows his son or slave to treat as his own....

ON TIMES[299]

[299] In his “On Times,” Isidore is apparently condensing what
he has written elsewhere. The first part of it, which gives an
account of the divisions of time—the moment, hour, day, week,
month, year, and so forth—is drawn from _De Natura Rerum_,
which in turn was based on Suetonius, Solinus, Hyginus, of the
heathen writers, and Ambrosius, Clement, and Augustine, of the
Christian. (See p. 46.) In the second part, which consists of a
brief chronology, Isidore condensed his _Chronicon_, which was
drawn from Eusebius as translated and modified by Jerome, and
supplemented by the later work of Prosper, Victor Tunnensis, and
Joannis Biclarensis. The sources of the _Chronicon_ have been
thoroughly discussed by H. Hertzberg, _Ueber die Chronicon des
Isidors von Sevilla_ in _Forschungen zur Deutschen Geschichte_
(Göttingen, 1875), vol. xv.