Liber primus
XVII.
De officio praefecti Augustalis
(Concerning the Office of Augustal Prefect.)
1Ulpianus libro quinto decimo ad edictum. Praefectus Aegypti non prius deponit praefecturam et imperium, quod ad similitudinem proconsulis lege sub Augusto ei datum est, quam Alexandriam ingressus sit successor eius, licet in provinciam venerit: et ita mandatis eius continetur.
1Ulpianus, On the Edict, Book XV. The Prefect of Egypt does not lay aside his prefectship and the authority granted to him by law under Augustus, as Proconsuls do, before his successor enters the City of Alexandria; even though he may have already reached the province; and it is so stated in his commission.