- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
Explains the legal response regarding whether a husband serving as an envoy must defend himself in Rome in a dowry return suit if his wife divorces him there.
[IDEM libro uicensimo quarto quaestionum.]
[THE SAME, Questions, Book XXIV.]
Si uxor a legato1 Romae diuerterit, dotis nomine defendendum Romae uirum2 responsum est.
If a wife has divorced an envoy in Rome, it was answered that the husband must defend himself in Rome under the name of dowry.
- 5.1.42.pra legato
The preposition a governs the ablative of separation with the verb diuerterit ("divorced from the envoy"). This legatus ("envoy") refers to the same person as uirum ("husband") in the main clause.
- 5.1.42.prdefendendum ... uirum
A construction of accusative with infinitive with esse omitted (defendendum esse uirum), where defendendum is a gerundive, forming the subject clause of the impersonal passive responsum est ("it was answered"). The verb defendere here means to "defend oneself in court" or "answer a suit".