- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-24
This section dictates that a proconsul must continue to discharge all duties and administer justice until his successor's arrival, and forbids him from dismissing his legate before his own departure.
[IDEM libro decimo de officio proconsulis.]
[THE SAME, from the tenth book On the Office of Proconsul.]
Meminisse oportebit usque ad aduentum successoris omnia debere proconsulem agere,1 cum sit unus proconsulatus et utilitas prouinciae exigat esse aliquem, per quem negotia sua prouinciales explicent: ergo in aduentum2 successoris debebit ius dicere.
It must be remembered that the proconsul ought to administer everything until the arrival of his successor, since the proconsulship is one and the utility of the province requires that there be someone through whom the provincials may dispatch their affairs; therefore, he must administer justice until the arrival of his successor.
Legatum suum ne ante se de prouincia dimittat,3 et lege Iulia repetundarum et rescripto diui Hadriani ad Calpurnium Rufum proconsulem Achaiae admonetur.
That he should not dismiss his legate from the province before himself is cautioned both by the Julian law on extortion and by a rescript of the divine Hadrian to Calpurnius Rufus, proconsul of Achaea.
- 1.16.10.prMeminisse oportebit ... debere proconsulem agere
The impersonal future verb oportebit takes the infinitive meminisse, which in turn governs an accusative and infinitive construction (debere proconsulem agere) where proconsulem is the subject accusative of debere, and debere itself takes the complementary infinitive agere.
- 1.16.10.prin aduentum
The preposition in with the accusative noun aduentum. It denotes a temporal limit or prospective target date, meaning "until the arrival" or "looking forward to the arrival" of the successor.
- 1.16.10.1Legatum suum ne ante se de prouincia dimittat
The clause introduced by ne represents the content of an indirect command or prohibition required by the passive verb admonetur ("is warned/cautioned") at the end of the sentence, showing the construction admoneri ut/ne.