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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-24
The text discusses the exceptional privilege for women previously married to consular men to retain their rank upon remarriage, and defines who are to be comprehended under the term "senators".
[ULPIANUS libro secundo de censibus.]
[ULPIAN, On the Census, book 2]
Nuptae prius consulari uiro impetrare solent a principe, quamuis perraro, ut nuptae iterum minoris dignitatis uiro1 nihilominus in consulari maneant dignitate: ut scio Antoninum Augustum Iuliae Mamaeae consobrinae suae indulsisse.
Women previously married to a consular man are accustomed to obtain from the emperor, although very rarely, that, having married again to a man of lesser rank, they may nevertheless remain in the consular dignity; as I know Antoninus Augustus to have granted this to Julia Mamaea, his cousin.
Senatores autem accipiendum est eos,2 qui a patriciis et consulibus usque ad omnes illustres uiros descendunt, quia et hi soli in senatu sententiam dicere possunt.
Moreover, we must understand as “senators” those who descend from patricians and consuls down to all “illustrious” men, because these alone can also express their opinion in the senate.
- 1.9.12.prnuptae prius consulari uiro
The intransitive verb nubo (to marry) governs the dative case (here, consulari uiro). Nuptae is the perfect participle, modified by prius (previously), meaning 'women previously married to a consular man'.
- 1.9.12.1Senatores autem accipiendum est eos
The impersonal gerundive construction accipiendum est (it must be understood) governs the accusatives Senatores and eos (either as direct objects or as subjects of an implied infinitive like esse), meaning 'We must understand as "senators" those who...'.