- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
States the principle that only those who are absent not for their own benefit, but because they are compelled, are understood to be absent on public business.
[ULPIANUS libro sexto ad legem Iuliam et Papiam.]
[ULPIANUS, On the Julian and Papian Law, Book VI]
Rei publicae causa abesse eos solos intellegimus, qui non sui commodi causa, sed coacti1 absunt.
We understand that those alone are absent on public business who are absent not for their own benefit, but because they are compelled.
- 4.6.36.prcoacti
The nominative plural masculine perfect passive participle of cogo (to compel), agreeing with the relative pronoun qui, which is the subject of the relative clause. It expresses the circumstance or reason of their absence ('being compelled' by public duty), contrasting with those who are absent for their own advantage (sui commodi causa).