- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-22
This text discusses the head of a household's free choice to determine which descendants (son and grandson) to release from or retain under his power, or to make them all independent, noting that the same applies to a great-grandson.
[GAIUS libro primo institutionum.]
[GAIUS, Institutes, book 1.]
Liberum arbitrium est ei, qui filium et ex eo nepotem in potestate habebit, filium quidem potestate demittere, nepotem uero in potestate retinere: uel ex diuerso filium quidem in potestate retinere, nepotem uero manumittere: uel omnes sui iuris efficere.1 eadem et de pronepote dicta esse2 intellegemus.
A person who will have in his power a son and a grandson born of him has the free choice either to release the son from his power and retain the grandson in his power; or, conversely, to retain the son in his power and manumit the grandson; or to make them all independent. We shall understand that the same things are also said concerning a great-grandson.
- 1.7.28.prLiberum arbitrium est ei... demittere... retinere... efficere
The infinitive clauses (demittere, retinere, efficere) function as appositives explaining the content of 'liberum arbitrium' (free choice) or as subjects of 'est ei' (he has). Three alternatives are coordinated by the conjunction 'uel': releasing the son and retaining the grandson, retaining the son and releasing the grandson, or making them all independent (sui iuris).
- 1.7.28.prdicta esse
Part of the accusative and infinitive (A.C.I.) construction governed by 'intellegemus' (we shall understand). The neuter plural accusative 'eadem' (the same things) is the subject accusative, and 'dicta esse' is the perfect passive infinitive, meaning 'we shall understand that the same things have been said'.