Translation - Latin-English - 11.7.0. De metallariis et metallis et...

At the end GRAT. is Gratianus, not "Thanks to"
And you wrote August instead of Antonius.

What do AAA. stand for?? Do you have an idea?

AAA.? I have no idea, for sure abbreviation from some names, but we can leave it in abbreviation I think.
CONSTANTINOPLE AUGUST --> CONSTANTINOPLE ANTONIUS (of course )

Emperors Gratian,...

Gratianus = Eng.Gratian


TO GRATIAN VALENTINIAN AND THEODOSIUS AAA. FLORUS PRAETORIAN PREFECT <CONSTANTINOPLE ANTONIUS AND SYAGRIUS CONSUL 3rd SEPT. 382AD>

Is this ok now, Efee? (Uff! Not easy text...)

CC: Efylove

TO GRATIAN VALENTINIAN AND THEODOSIUS - maybe without "to" because it's some kind of signature...

It's perfect!

But it is in dative: GRAT[iano] VALENTIN[ino] ET THEODOS[io] AAA. FLORO PP. *<A 382 D. III K. SEPT. CONSTANTINOPOLI ANTONIO ET SYAGRIO CONSS...
so I will translate it as: "(addressed)to Gratian,..etc."

CC: Efylove

I think it's some kind of absolute ablative. Maybe it should be "while Gratianus, Valent. etc. are emperors" or "being ... emperors".
Maybe AAA. it's "Augustus" repeated three times: "Being ... Augusti".
Like "Floro PP": "while Florus is praetorian perfect". And "while Antonius and Syagrus are consuls".
A way to write the date?

But I don't know, dear...

Hmm... Maybe, you're right, dear one. I will check it, ok? I must compare it with some ancient sources...

You know, what I think, Efee?
The first part is probably in dative ("addresed to..." )
GRAT. VALENTIN. ET THEODOS. AAA. FLORO PP.

and this one in parenthesis in Ablativus absolutus (stricte connected with date, so "under the reign of..." ):
*<A 382 D. III K. SEPT. CONSTANTINOPOLI ANTONIO ET SYAGRIO CONSS.>

What do you think now?

CC: Efylove

Compare with it (from Codex Iustinianus too):

ARCAD. ET HONOR. AA. MESSALAE PP. *<A 399 D.XIIII K.MART.MEDIOLANI THEODORO PVC.CONS.>

MESSALAE can't be Ablative...

http://upmf-grenoble.fr/Haiti/Cours/Ak/Corpus/CJ11.htm

This is the third time I try to write here (my pc has gone crazy!).

So, Messalae was very helpful!!! It isn't ablative at all.
But I have another idea.
Second part: ablativus absulutus
First part: three nominativi and a dativus
"Gratian, Valentinian and Theodosius AAA. to Florus"

Because, I think, if the emeprors wrote the law (as we read above) how could the law be addresed to themselves? And, I remember, in Late Antiquity, laws were in the form of a letter written to important members of the political estabilishment (such as our dear pratorian perfect!)

What do you think, dear?
We are going crazy with this text - but it's so funny!

You are great, dear one!!! I love cooperating with you!
Yes, I think your version is very possible. I think we can accept this version now:

11.7.0. Concerning metal-miners, metals and procurators of metal mines.
11.7.3

Emperors Gratian, Valentinian and Theodosius. All who, by laborious diggings, follow a vein in the rocks belonging to private parties, shall pay one tenth to the fisc, one tenth to the owner, and keep the remainder themselves.
* VALENTINIAN AND THEODOSIUS AAA. TO FLORUS PRAETORIAN PREFECT <UNDER THE REIGN OF CONSTANTINOPLE ANTONIUS AND SYAGRIUS CONSUL 3rd SEPT. 382AD,>

Do you agree, Efee?