- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-25
It stipulates the timing for the Prefect of Egypt to lay down his office and imperium, requiring his successor's entry into Alexandria rather than merely into the province.
[ULPIANUS libro quinto decimo ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS, from the fifteenth book On the Edict.]
Praefectus Aegypti non prius deponit praefecturam et imperium, quod1 ad similitudinem proconsulis lege sub Augusto ei datum est, quam2 Alexandriam ingressus sit successor eius, licet in prouinciam uenerit:3 et ita mandatis eius4 continetur.
The prefect of Egypt does not lay down his prefecture and imperium, which was given to him by a law under Augustus in likeness to a proconsul, until his successor has entered Alexandria, even though the successor has arrived in the province; and it is so contained in his instructions.
- 1.17.1.prquod
The relative pronoun quod (neuter singular nominative) has the immediate antecedent imperium (neuter noun), excluding the feminine praefecturam. Thus, the passive verb datum est is also in the neuter singular.
- 1.17.1.prnon prius ... quam
A correlative structure with non prius ... quam ('not... until'). It takes the subjunctive perfect ingressus sit to indicate the temporal limit before which the action does not occur.
- 1.17.1.prlicet in prouinciam uenerit
The concessive conjunction licet is used with the subjunctive perfect uenerit ('although he has arrived'). The subject of uenerit is omitted but understood from the context as successor eius (his successor). It emphasizes that merely entering the province is insufficient; physical entry into Alexandria is required.
- 1.17.1.prmandatis eius
The genitive eius refers to the Praefectus Aegypti (Prefect of Egypt). The phrase refers to the specific administrative instructions (mandata) issued by the emperor to the prefect.