- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-27
By Papinianus. It explains that a freedman made a defendant by his patron, who addresses the governor in his own defense, is not deemed to summon his patron to court.
[PAPINIANUS libro primo responsorum.]
[PAPINIANUS, in the first book of Opinions.]
Libertus a patrono reus constitutus, qui se defendere paratus1 pro tribunali praesidem prouinciae frequenter interpellat, patronum accusatorem2 in ius non uidetur uocare.3
A freedman who has been made a defendant by his patron, and who, prepared to defend himself, frequently addresses the governor of the province before the tribunal, is not considered to summon his patron, the accuser, to court.
- 2.4.14.prse defendere paratus
The adjective paratus is nominative singular masculine, predicatively modifying the relative pronoun qui (whose antecedent is Libertus), meaning "prepared to defend himself."
- 2.4.14.prpatronum accusatorem
accusatorem is in apposition to patronum (accusative), meaning "his patron, who is the accuser."
- 2.4.14.prnon uidetur uocare
uidetur (third-person singular passive) forms a personal construction with the infinitive uocare (nominative with infinitive rather than accusative with infinitive), meaning "is not deemed to summon." The subject of the sentence is Libertus.