- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.2.5.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-01
Explains the legal rationale why making a settlement is understood as an admission of guilt and thus leads to infamy.
[PAULUS libro quinto ad edictum.]
[PAULUS, in his Fifth Book on the Edict.]
quoniam intellegitur confiteri crimen qui paciscitur.1
since he who settles is understood to confess to the crime.
- 3.2.5.prquoniam intellegitur confiteri crimen qui paciscitur
The relative clause qui paciscitur (he who settles), with its antecedent omitted, serves as the subject of the passive verb intellegitur in a "nominative with infinitive" (Nominativus cum Infinitivo) construction. The present infinitive of the deponent verb confiteri (to confess) complements intellegitur, meaning "he who settles is understood to confess to the crime." The conjunction quoniam (since/because) provides the rationale for why a person who has settled (pactusue erit in §3.2.4.5) is declared infamous.