- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-26
Marcianus states that while freedmen can serve as assessors, infamous persons, despite the lack of an explicit legal prohibition, cannot perform the duties of an assessor as established by imperial decree.
[MARCIANUS libro primo de iudiciis publicis.]
[MARCIANUS, On Public Trials, Book One.]
Liberti adsidere possunt. infames1 autem licet non prohibeantur legibus adsidere, attamen arbitror, ut aliquo quoque decreto principali refertur constitutum,2 non posse officio adsessoris fungi.
Freedmen can serve as assessors. However, although infamous persons are not prohibited by the laws from serving as assessors, nevertheless I think, as is also reported to have been established by some imperial decree, that they cannot perform the office of an assessor.
- 1.22.2.prinfames
The nominative plural infames at the beginning serves as the subject of the concessive clause licet non prohibeantur, but it also functions as the logical subject of the accusative-and-infinitive clause (non posse... fungi) depending on the main verb arbitror. Grammatically, this is an anacoluthon where the nominative infames is placed first, and the corresponding accusative pronoun (eos) is omitted in the subsequent infinitive clause.
- 1.22.2.prrefertur constitutum
The perfect passive participle constitutum functions as an infinitive with the omission of esse (constitutum esse), serving as the complement of refertur. It means "it is reported to have been established". The phrase aliquo quoque decreto principali is an ablative indicating the instrument or source of this establishment.