- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.8.2.pr-1.8.2.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-23
Marcian outlines the fourfold classification of things (common to all, belonging to a corporate body, belonging to no one, and belonging to individuals) and lists the examples of things common to all by natural law (air, flowing water, sea, and sea shores).
[MARCIANUS libro tertio institutionum.]
[MARCIANUS, Institutes, book 3.]
Quaedam naturali iure1 communia sunt omnium, quaedam uniuersitatis, quaedam nullius, pleraque singulorum, quae2 uariis ex causis cuique adquiruntur.
Some things are by natural law common to all, some belong to a corporate body, some belong to no one, and most belong to individuals, which are acquired by each person from various causes.
Et quidem naturali iure omnium communia sunt illa: aer, aqua profluens, et mare, et per hoc3 litora maris.
And indeed, by natural law the following are common to all: the air, flowing water, the sea, and consequently the shores of the sea.
- 1.8.2.prnaturali iure
Ablative of means/manner or cause, translated as "by natural law" or "under natural law."
- 1.8.2.prquae
Relative pronoun, nominative neuter plural. Its antecedent is the preceding pleraque (most things), introducing a relative clause that explains how individual properties are acquired by individuals through various causes.
- 1.8.2.1per hoc
The preposition per combined with the accusative neuter singular of the demonstrative pronoun hoc. Here, hoc refers to the preceding mare (the sea), meaning "through this" or "as a consequence of the existence of the sea."