- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.4.23.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-27
It states that a common freedman must obtain prior permission from the praetor to summon any of his patrons to court in order to avoid being penalized.
[MARCIANUS libro tertio institutionum.]
[MARCIANUS, in the third book of the Institutes.]
Communis libertus licet plurium sit,1 debet a praetore petere, ut2 ei liceat uel quendam ex patronis in ius uocare, ne in poenam incidat ex edicto praetoris.
A common freedman, even if he belongs to several patrons, must petition the praetor for permission to summon any of his patrons to court, so that he does not incur a penalty under the praetor’s edict.
- 2.4.23.prlicet plurium sit
The conjunction licet expresses concession ("although", "even if") and takes the subjunctive sit. plurium is the genitive plural of the comparative plus, functioning as a genitive of possession or belonging referring back to libertus ("even if he is [the freedman] of several [patrons]").
- 2.4.23.pra praetore petere, ut
The verb petere ("to request", "to petition") takes the preposition a/ab with the ablative (a praetore) to indicate the person petitioned, and an object clause introduced by ut with the subjunctive (ut... liceat) to express the request.