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Adoption and Retention of Status as a Senator's Child

Paulus explains that an adopted child of a senator retains the status of a senator's son as long as he remains in the family, and that a senator's son given in adoption to someone of lower dignity does not lose his status.

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[PAULUS libro secundo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam.]

[PAULUS, On the Lex Julia et Papia, book 2]

§1.9.6.pr

​Senatoris filius est et is, quem in adoptionem accepit, quamdiu tamen in familia eius manet: emancipatus uero nomen filii emancipatione amittit.

​He also whom a senator has received in adoption is the son of a senator, so long, however, as he remains in his family; but one who has been emancipated loses the name of a son by emancipation.

§1.9.6.1

​A senatore in adoptionem filius datus ei qui inferioris dignitatis1 est, quasi senatoris filius uidetur, quia non amittitur senatoria dignitas adoptione inferioris dignitatis, non magis quam ut consularis desinat esse.2

​A son given in adoption by a senator to one who is of an inferior dignity is regarded as if he were the son of a senator; because the senatorial dignity is not lost by adoption by one of an inferior dignity, any more than a consular person ceases to be such.

Syntax notes2 items
  1. 1.9.6.1inferioris dignitatis

    The genitive inferioris dignitatis is a genitive of quality (genitivus qualitatis) describing the subject qui of the relative clause.

  2. 1.9.6.1non magis quam ut consularis desinat esse

    The phrase non magis quam is a comparative idiom meaning "no more than," equivalent to "just as... not, so... not." The subsequent ut clause takes the subjunctive desinat (present subjunctive 3rd person singular of desino), expressing a hypothetical or resulting state, meaning "just as a consular person does not cease to be such."

Translated by Gemini 3.5 Flash (published 2026-07-12)urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.9.6.pr-1.9.6.1