- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.2.8.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-01
Explaining the handling of the mourning period when the husband's death was unknown, this passage notes the praetor's requirement 'when he/she knew of it' to prevent punishing ignorance, and presents Labeo's view that since mourning is continuous, a widow who learns of the death after the legal period must both put on and take off mourning garments on the very same day.
[ULPIANUS libro sexto ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS, in his Sixth Book on the Edict.]
'Genero' inquit 'mortuo': merito adiecit praetor: 'cum eum mortuum esse sciret1', ne ignorantia puniatur. sed cum tempus luctus continuum est, merito et ignoranti2 cedit ex die mortis mariti: et ideo si post legitimum tempus cognouit, Labeo ait ipsa die et sumere eam lugubria et deponere.3
’With the son-in-law dead,’ he says. Rightly did the praetor add, ‘when he/she knew him to be dead,’ lest ignorance be punished. But since the period of mourning is continuous, it rightly runs from the day of the husband’s death, even for one who is ignorant of it; and therefore, if she learned of it after the lawful period, Labeo says that on that very day she both puts on and puts off the garments of mourning.
- 3.2.8.prcum eum mortuum esse sciret
A cum clause (circumstantial) with the imperfect subjunctive sciret. The subject of the accusative with infinitive construction eum mortuum esse is eum, referring to the deceased son-in-law (genero). The subject of sciret (3rd person singular) refers to the father (paterfamilias) who marries off his daughter, or the woman herself.
- 3.2.8.pret ignoranti
Dative singular of the participle ignorans. It depends on the verb cedit (here meaning 'runs/accrues' of time). The conjunction et is used adverbially in the sense of 'even'.
- 3.2.8.pret sumere eam lugubria et deponere
An accusative with infinitive construction introduced by the verb ait. The subject accusative is eam (she), and the infinitives sumere and deponere are linked by et ... et ... (both ... and ...). lugubria (mourning garments, neuter plural accusative) is the shared object of both infinitives.