Traduire Lydos. Notes en marge de la nouvelle édition de Jean le Lydien, Des magistratures de l’État romain …

The new edition of ‘On the Magistracies’, published by Budé in 2006, does not offer a profoundly altered text from earlier versions (Wünsch, 1903; Bandy, 1987). But it is the first to provide a systematic commentary on the work, running to more than 1000 pages, together with a French translation which is more readable than the two earlier English translations. That translation does however still call for a series of corrections, particularly in connection with the difficulties of Late Antique administrative vocabulary. The resolutions offered below are supported by brief explanatory notes. In some cases our translation will lead to a modification of the Greek text.