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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-25
Papinian notes that an imperial legate, such as a provincial governor or corrector, does not immediately lose his imperium simply by resigning his office.
[PAPINIANUS libro primo responsorum.]
[PAPINIANUS, in the first book of Opinions.]
Legatus Caesaris, id est praeses uel corrector prouinciae, abdicando se1 non amittit imperium.2
An imperial legate, that is, a governor or corrector of a province, does not lose his imperium by resigning his office.
- 1.18.20.prabdicando se
The gerund abdicando in the ablative case is accompanied by the accusative reflexive pronoun se. The phrase abdicare se (magistratu) is an idiomatic expression meaning 'to remove oneself (from office), to resign'. Here, the ablative gerund expresses means or circumstance: 'by resigning (himself)'.
- 1.18.20.primperium
The term 'imperium' refers to the supreme power of command, both military and judicial, held by high Roman magistrates and imperial legates. This passage clarifies that the mere act of declaring or initiating resignation does not instantly terminate this official authority.