- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
The author states the principle that a slave's actions are deemed to be by the master's will, and illustrates this by proposing a case where an adult mandates business to a minor who is then defrauded.
[AFRICANUS libro septimo quaestionum.]
[AFRICANUS in the seventh book of Questions.]
Etenim quodcumque seruus ita gerit, uoluntate domini1 gerere intellegendus est.2 et magis hoc apparebit, si aut de institoria actione quaeratur, aut si proponatur maiorem annis uiginti quinque3 negotium aliquod gerendum4 minori mandasse et illum in ea re deceptum esse.
For indeed, whatever a slave does in this way, he must be understood to act by the will of his master. And this will appear more clearly if either a question is raised concerning the action on a business manager, or if it is proposed that a person over twenty-five years of age has mandated some business to be managed to a minor, and that the latter was defrauded in that matter.
- 4.4.4.pruoluntate domini
The ablative uoluntate expresses manner, attitude, or circumstance, meaning 'by the will of' or 'with the consent of' the master.
- 4.4.4.prgerere intellegendus est
A personal construction is used here with the nominative seruus as the subject of the gerundive intellegendus est instead of an impersonal accusative-with-infinitive construction ('intellegendum est seruum gerere'), meaning 'he is to be understood to act'.
- 4.4.4.prmaiorem annis uiginti quinque
The comparative maiorem is modified by the ablative of comparison annis uiginti quinque (referring to a person over twenty-five). The entire phrase acts as the subject accusative of the infinitive mandasse.
- 4.4.4.prnegotium aliquod gerendum
The gerundive gerendum modifies the noun negotium aliquod to express purpose or necessity ('some business to be managed'), functioning as the direct object of the verb mandasse.