- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-23
It explains that a freed father can bring a son, who was acquired while the father was in slavery, under his paternal power by imperial favor, but the son's status remains that of a freedman.
[ULPIANUS libro quarto ad legem Iuliam et Papiam.]
[ULPIANUS, On the Lex Julia et Papia, book 4.]
In seruitute mea quaesitus1 mihi filius in potestatem meam redigi beneficio principis potest: libertinum tamen eum manere non dubitatur.2
A son acquired for me while I was in slavery can, by the favor of the emperor, be brought under my paternal power; nevertheless, there is no doubt that he remains a freedman.
- 1.7.46.prIn seruitute mea quaesitus
In seruitute mea (in my servitude) means "while I was in slavery." quaesitus is the perfect passive participle of quaerere (to acquire), modifying the subject noun filius. The phrase refers to a child born during the period when the father was still a slave.
- 1.7.46.prlibertinum tamen eum manere non dubitatur
The passive verb non dubitatur (it is not doubted) is used impersonally, governing the accusative and infinitive construction eum... manere (that he remains). libertinum (freedman) is a predicate accusative agreeing with the subject accusative eum.