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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
This section explains that praetorian prefects can grant restitution in integrum against their own judgments despite their decisions being unappealable, and distinguishes the nature of appeals from that of restitution.
[HERMOGENIANUS libro primo iuris epitomarum.]
[HERMOGENIANUS in the first book of the Epitome of Law.]
Praefecti etiam praetorio ex sua sententia in integrum possunt restituere, quamuis appellari ab his non possit.1 Haec idcirco tam uarie,2 quia appellatio quidem iniquitatis sententiae querellam, in integrum uero restitutio erroris proprii ueniae petitionem3 uel aduersarii circumuentionis allegationem continet.
The praetorian prefects also can restore in integrum from their own judgment, although no appeal can be made from them. These matters are so different for this reason, because an appeal indeed contains a complaint of the injustice of a judgment, but restitution in integrum contains a petition for pardon of one’s own error or an allegation of the adversary’s circumvention.
- 4.4.17.prappellari ab his non possit
An impersonal passive construction. Literally "it cannot be appealed from them," meaning that an ordinary civil appeal from the decisions of the praetorian prefects is not allowed. ab his refers to the preceding Praefecti praetorio.
- 4.4.17.prHaec idcirco tam uarie
An elliptical clause with the omission of the verb (such as sunt or se habent). It must be understood in context as "these matters (the different applications of appeal and restitution) are so diverse for this reason, because...".
- 4.4.17.prerroris proprii ueniae petitionem
A nested genitive construction. erroris proprii (of one's own error) is an objective genitive modifying ueniae (pardon for...), which in turn is an objective genitive modifying petitionem (petition for...). Together, it means "a petition for the pardon of one's own error."