- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
It states that a person who is on an embassy for his own private affairs cannot be truly considered as being absent on public service.
[ALFENUS libro quinto digestorum.]
[ALFENUS, Digest, Book V]
Non uere dicitur rei publicae causa abesse1 eum, qui sui priuati negotii causa in legatione2 est.
It is not truly said that he is absent on public service, who is on an embassy for the sake of his own private business.
- 4.6.42.prNon uere dicitur ... eum ... abesse
A construction where the impersonal passive verb dicitur governs the accusative with infinitive clause eum ... abesse (where eum, qualified by the relative clause qui..., is the subject accusative of the infinitive abesse). It means 'it is not truly said that...'.
- 4.6.42.prsui priuati negotii causa in legatione
An embassy (legatio) is inherently a public duty, but here it refers to a seemingly contradictory situation of being 'on an embassy for the sake of one's own private business' (sui priuati negotii causa). It indicates that those who obtain an embassy status primarily for private interests are excluded from the legal relief granted to persons absent on public service (rei publicae causa absens).