- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
- Translation
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- CTS URN
- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.18.21.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-25
This passage states that when a governor hears cases concerning corrupted or abused slaves, he must inflict the severest punishment if the corrupted person is a business agent or someone whose corruption leads to the ruin of the entire household.
[PAULUS libro singulari de officio adsessorum.]
[PAULUS, in his single book on the Office of Assessors.]
Praeses cum cognoscat de seruo corrupto uel ancilla deuirginata uel seruo stuprato, si actor rerum agentis1 corruptus esse dicetur uel eiusmodi homo, ut non ad solam iacturam aduersus substantiam, sed ad totius domus euersionem pertineat:2 seuerissime debet animaduertere.3
When a governor hears a case concerning a corrupted slave, or a deflowered maidservant, or a sodomized male slave, if the person said to have been corrupted is an agent managing affairs, or a person of such a character that the consequences extend not merely to a loss of property, but to the ruin of the entire household: he must punish most severely.
- 1.18.21.practor rerum agentis
This phrase consists of actor rerum (manager of affairs) and agentis (genitive of agens, meaning "acting" or "agent"), referring to an administrator who conducts business on behalf of an absent master. The corruption of such a high-status figure threatened the entire household, thereby warranting a harsher punishment.
- 1.18.21.preiusmodi homo, ut... pertineat
eiusmodi (of such a kind) qualifies homo, which is followed by the consecutive ut clause with the subjunctive present pertineat. The subject of pertineat is implied from the context, referring to the "corruption" or "affair" of the person in question.
- 1.18.21.pranimaduertere
While the verb originally means "to notice" or "to direct one's attention," in legal contexts it carries the specialized meaning of "to punish" or "to inflict penalty."