- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.5.3.pr-4.5.3.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
Discusses the diminution of status for children who follow an arrogated parent, and the reason (fictitious slavery) for the diminution of status of emancipated sons, contrasting it with the manumission of slaves.
[PAULUS libro undecimo ad edictum.]
[PAULUS libro undecimo ad edictum.]
Liberos qui adrogatum parentem sequuntur placet minui caput,1 cum in aliena potestate sint et cum familiam mutauerint.
It is held that children who follow a parent who has been arrogated suffer a diminution of status, since they come under another’s power and have changed their family.
Emancipato filio et ceteris personis capitis minutio manifesto accidit, cum emancipari nemo possit nisi in imaginariam seruilem causam deductus:2 aliter atque cum seruus manumittitur, quia seruile caput nullum ius habet ideoque nec minui potest:
A diminution of status manifestly happens to an emancipated son and to other persons, since no one can be emancipated unless he has been brought into a fictitious condition of slavery; it is otherwise than when a slave is manumitted, because a slave’s status has no rights and therefore cannot even be diminished.
- 4.5.3.prplacet minui caput
The impersonal verb placet takes the accusative and infinitive clause liberos... minui caput as its subject, meaning 'it is held / accepted that...'. caput minui (or capite minui) refers to suffering a diminution of status.
- 4.5.3.1nisi in imaginariam seruilem causam deductus
deductus is a perfect participle in the nominative singular masculine, modifying the subject nemo. It expresses a conditional sense: 'unless he has been brought into a fictitious condition of slavery'.