- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-23
Discusses the precedence of status among consular men and women and prefectorian men, and clarifies that the title of "consular women" refers only to the wives of consular men, excluding their mothers.
[ULPIANUS libro sexagensimo secundo ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS, On the Edict, book 62]
Consulari feminae utique consularem uirum praeferendum nemo ambigit.1 sed uir praefectorius an consulari feminae praeferatur, uidendum. putem2 praeferri, quia maior dignitas est in sexu uirili.
No one doubts that a consular man is certainly to be preferred to a consular woman. But whether a prefectorian man is to be preferred to a consular woman is to be considered. I should think that he is preferred, because there is greater dignity in the male sex.
Consulares autem feminas dicimus consularium uxores: adicit Saturninus etiam matres, quod3 nec usquam relatum est nec umquam receptum.
Moreover, by “consular women” we mean the wives of consular men; Saturninus adds even mothers, which has neither been recorded anywhere nor ever accepted.
- 1.9.1.prConsulari feminae utique consularem uirum praeferendum nemo ambigit
Accusative and infinitive construction (with esse omitted after the gerundive praeferendum) acting as the object of ambigit, meaning 'no one doubts that...'. Consulari feminae is the dative governed by praeferendum.
- 1.9.1.prputem
First-person singular present subjunctive, used as a potential subjunctive of modest assertion ('I should think' or 'I would think').
- 1.9.1.1quod
Neuter singular nominative relative pronoun. Its antecedent is not a single word but the entire preceding clause or action of Saturninus adding mothers as well.