La in ius uocatio en Plauto : entre lo griego y lo romano

Paoli (1968), referring to Plautus and legal history, considers that, in order to distinguish what is Roman and what is Greek, it is necessary to search in the legal elements found in the comedies. Under the legis actiones system and the formulary procedure, the judicial summon is known as in ius uocatio. Plautus gives evidence of this judicial summon through great part of his production. But Scafuro (1967) asseverates that it is difficult to establish whether Plautus has translated a Greek procedure with Roman legal terms, or if he has adapted the scene to the Roman procedure. As we think that everything can be discussed in order to settle the relationship between a known text (the comedies) and another unkown text (the Greek hypotexts), we will analyse the Plautine fragments referring to the in ius uocatio, and try to find if there are contradictions from the Roman legal point of view.