- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.2.9.pr-3.2.9.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-02
Paulus states that husbands are not obliged to mourn for their wives, and that there is no obligation of mourning for a betrothed.
[PAULUS libro quinto ad edictum.]
[PAULUS, in his Fifth Book on the Edict.]
Uxores uiri1 lugere non compelluntur.
Husbands are not compelled to mourn for their wives.
Sponsi2 nullus luctus est.
There is no mourning for a betrothed.
- 3.2.9.pruiri
uiri is the nominative plural of uir, serving as the subject of the main verb non compelluntur. uxores is the accusative plural of uxor, acting as the object of the infinitive lugere. Although the morphological ambiguity of both words (uxores can be nominative or accusative plural; uiri can be genitive singular or nominative plural) might suggest a reading like 'the wives (uxores) of the husband (uiri)...', the legal context—where women were obliged to mourn their husbands but men were under no legal obligation to mourn their wives—determines that uiri is the subject ('husbands') and uxores is the object ('wives').
- 3.2.9.1Sponsi
Genitive singular of sponsus (betrothed male). It functions as an objective genitive modifying luctus, meaning 'mourning for a betrothed'.