- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.4.21.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
Clarifies the definition of "abandoning" a suit mentioned in the previous section, specifying that it means altogether renouncing the litigation rather than merely postponing it.
[IDEM libro decimo ad edictum.]
[THE SAME in the tenth book on the Edict.]
Destitisse autem is uidetur1 non qui distulit, sed qui liti renuntiauit2 in totum.
But he is deemed to have abandoned his suit, not who has postponed it, but who has renounced the litigation altogether.
- 4.4.21.prDestitisse autem is uidetur
The perfect infinitive destitisse serves as the complement of the passive personal verb uidetur (nominative with infinitive construction), with the demonstrative pronoun is as its logical subject. This is is further defined and contrasted by the subsequent relative clauses non qui... sed qui...
- 4.4.21.prliti renuntiauit
The verb renuntio (to renounce, abandon) governs the dative case (liti, from lis) to indicate the object of renunciation, rather than the accusative.