- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-25
Explains the interpretation of the imperial rescript 'you can approach the governor,' clarifying that it does not compel the governor to hear the case himself but allows him to decide whether to investigate it or appoint a judge.
[IULIANUS libro primo digestorum.]
[JULIANUS, in the first book of the Digests.]
Saepe audiui Caesarem nostrum dicentem1 hac rescriptione: 'eum qui prouinciae praeest adire potes' non imponi necessitatem proconsuli uel legato eius uel praesidi prouinciae suscipiendae cognitionis,2 sed eum aestimare debere, ipse cognoscere an iudicem dare debeat.3
I have often heard our Emperor saying that by this rescript: ‘You can approach the person who is in charge of the province,’ no necessity is imposed upon a proconsul or his legate or the governor of a province to undertake the investigation, but that he ought to evaluate whether he himself should investigate or whether he should appoint a judge.
- 1.18.8.prCaesarem nostrum dicentem
The present participle dicentem functions as the object complement of the verb of hearing audiui ('I heard our Emperor saying'). The participle in turn governs an accusative with infinitive (ACI) construction (non imponi... sed... debere) containing the substance of the Emperor's statement.
- 1.18.8.prsuscipiendae cognitionis
A gerundive construction in the genitive case agreeing with the noun cognitionis. It modifies the noun necessitatem ('the necessity of undertaking the investigation').
- 1.18.8.pripse cognoscere an iudicem dare debeat
An indirect question structure where the alternative particle utrum is omitted before an. The infinitive cognoscere shares the governing auxiliary debeat implied from the following clause (ipse cognoscere [debeat] an...), forming an indirect alternative question depending on aestimare ('whether he himself ought to investigate or ought to appoint a judge').