- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- AI-generated (gemini-3.5-flash) — machine translation; may contain errors
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.4.8.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-05
This section explains that if a city is not defended by its administrators and lacks possessable physical property, plaintiffs should obtain satisfaction through actions directed against the city's debtors.
[IAUOLENUS libro quinto decimo ex Cassio.]
[JAVOLENUS, in the fifteenth book on Cassius.]
Ciuitates si1 per eos qui res earum administrant non defenduntur nec quicquam est corporale rei publicae2 quod possideatur, per actiones debitorum3 ciuitatis agentibus4 satisfieri oportet.
If cities are not defended by those who administer their affairs, and there is not any corporeal property of the municipality that can be possessed, satisfaction must be made to the plaintiffs through actions against the debtors of the city.
- 3.4.8.prCiuitates si
The noun Ciuitates is the subject of the si-clause but is placed at the beginning of the sentence (before si) for topicalization (prolepsis).
- 3.4.8.prrei publicae
Used here as a synonym for ciuitas (the city), functioning as a genitive of possession modifying quicquam corporale, meaning "any corporeal property belonging to the public body."
- 3.4.8.practiones debitorum
debitorum is the genitive plural of debitor, functioning as an objective genitive in relation to actiones, meaning "actions against the debtors."
- 3.4.8.pragentibus
Dative plural of the present participle of agere (to bring an action), used substantively to mean "to the plaintiffs" (those bringing suit), functioning as the dative complement of the passive infinitive satisfieri under the impersonal oportet.