- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-25
Ulpian rules that a governor of a province cannot appoint himself as a tutor, just as he cannot appoint himself as a special judge.
[IDEM libro primo de omnibus tribunalibus.]
[THE SAME, from the first book On All Tribunals.]
Praeses prouinciae non magis tutorem quam specialem iudicem1 ipse se dare2 potest.
The governor of a province can no more appoint himself tutor than he can appoint himself a special judge.
- 1.18.5.prnon magis tutorem quam specialem iudicem
The construction non magis A quam B expresses an equal negation, meaning "no more A than B" or "just as little A as B." Based on the premise that a governor cannot appoint himself as a special judge (B), it asserts that he is likewise unable to appoint himself as a tutor (A).
- 1.18.5.pripse se dare
The nominative ipse agrees with the subject praeses, emphasizing that the governor himself does the action. The accusative se is the direct object of the infinitive dare, functioning with tutorem and specialem iudicem as predicative accusatives.