- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-23
Pomponius explains that adoptions apply not only to sons but also to quasi-grandsons, so that the adopted person is legally treated as a grandson, just as if he were born of a son or an unspecified father.
[POMPONIUS libro uicensimo ad Quintum Mucium.]
[POMPONIUS, on Quintus Mucius, book 20.]
Adoptiones non solum filiorum, sed et quasi nepotum1 fiunt, ut aliquis nepos noster esse uideatur perinde quasi ex filio uel incerto2 natus sit.3
Adoptions are made not only of sons, but also of quasi-grandsons, so that someone may seem to be our grandson just as if he had been born of a son or of an uncertain person.
- 1.7.43.prquasi nepotum
The adverb quasi (meaning "as if" or "so to speak") modifies nepotum to indicate a relationship that legally functions as that of a grandson, though not biologically so. The word nepotum is a genitive plural depending on adoptiones.
- 1.7.43.princerto
The masculine ablative singular of the adjective incertus (uncertain, unspecified) used substantively. In this legal context, it refers to an unspecified or unknown father. The preposition ex governs both filio and incerto.
- 1.7.43.prperinde quasi... natus sit
The phrase perinde quasi introduces a conditional clause of comparison ("just as if") with the subjunctive (here, the perfect subjunctive natus sit).