- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-24
Papinianus states that if a senator's daughter marries a freedman, her father's subsequent expulsion from the senate does not validate the marriage, since children do not lose their acquired status due to their father's downfall.
[PAPINIANUS libro quarto responsorum.]
[PAPINIANUS, Opinions, book 4]
Filiam senatoris nuptias liberti secutam1 patris casus non facit uxorem:2 nam quaesita dignitas liberis propter casum patris remoti a senatu auferenda non est.3
The downfall of her father does not make a senator’s daughter, who has contracted a marriage with a freedman, his wife; for a dignity once acquired ought not to be taken away from children on account of the downfall of a father who has been removed from the senate.
- 1.9.9.prnuptias liberti secutam
Literally 'having followed the marriage of a freedman', this phrase means 'having contracted a marriage with a freedman'. The perfect participle secutam (from the deponent verb sequor) modifies filiam.
- 1.9.9.prnon facit uxorem
The verb facit governs a double accusative construction with the direct object filiam and the predicate accusative uxorem ('does not make her his wife'). This means that the legally void marriage between a senator's daughter and a freedman is not validated by her father's subsequent loss of status (casus).
- 1.9.9.prliberis... auferenda non est
The dative liberis is not a dative of agent with the gerundive auferenda, but rather a dative of separation commonly used with the verb of taking away (auferre). It translates to 'ought not to be taken away from the children'.