- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-26
Ulpian describes the extensive scope of the duty of a magistrate administering justice, giving examples such as granting possession of goods, appointing guardians, and assigning judges.
[ULPIANUS libro primo regularum.]
[ULPIAN, Rules, Book One.]
Ius dicentis1 officium latissimum est: nam et bonorum possessionem dare potest2 et in possessionem mittere, pupillis non habentibus tutores constituere, iudices litigantibus dare.
The duty of one who administers justice is extremely wide; for he can both grant the possession of goods and put into possession, appoint guardians for wards who do not have them, and assign judges to litigants.
- 2.1.1.prius dicentis
The genitive singular of the present participle from the phrase ius dicere (to administer justice), functioning substantively as 'the one administering justice' and serving as a possessive or subjective genitive modifying the subject officium.
- 2.1.1.prpotest
The auxiliary verb potest governs all four subsequent infinitive phrases: dare, mittere, constituere, and dare. The correlative conjunctions et...et... connect the first two infinitives, while the remaining infinitive phrases are appended in asyndeton.