- 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 argues that although a provincial governor must act in the place of all Roman magistrates, the standard for their actions should not be what has actually been done in Rome, but what ought to be done.
[PROCULUS libro quarto epistularum.]
[PROCULUS, in the fourth book of Epistles.]
Sed licet is, qui prouinciae praeest, omnium Romae magistratuum uice et officio fungi1 debeat,2 non tamen spectandum est quid Romae factum est, quam quid fieri debeat.3
But although he who is in charge of a province ought to perform the role and office of all magistrates in Rome, yet one must not look at what has been done in Rome so much as what ought to be done.
- 1.18.12.pruice et officio fungi
The verb fungi governs the ablative case; here, uice (ablative of uicis, meaning 'turn', 'office', or 'place') and officio function as its objects. omnium Romae magistratuum is a genitive modifying uice et officio.
- 1.18.12.prlicet ... debeat
The conjunction licet takes the subjunctive (here debeat) to introduce a concessive clause ('although...').
- 1.18.12.prnon tamen spectandum est quid Romae factum est, quam quid fieri debeat
spectandum est is an impersonal gerundive expressing obligation or necessity. The construction non ... quam ... is a comparison with the omission of tam (non tam ... quam ...), meaning 'not so much... as...'. In the indirect question, the indicative factum est is used instead of the subjunctive to emphasize the actual, historical occurrence of the facts in Rome, in contrast to the subjunctive fieri debeat.