- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.3.12.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-11
Explains the definition of a "possessor as possessor" (plunderer) as one who, when asked why they possess, merely answers "because I possess" and does not claim to be the heir even by a lie.
[IDEM libro sexagensimo septimo ad edictum.]
[THE SAME, in the sixty-seventh book on the Edict.]
qui interrogatus cur possideat, responsurus sit1 'quia possideo' nec contendet2 se heredem3 uel per mendacium,
who, when asked why he possesses, would answer ‘because I possess’, and will not contend, even by a lie, that he is the heir,
- 5.3.12.prresponsurus sit
Composed of the active future participle responsurus and the subjunctive present of the auxiliary sit. In the relative clause introduced by qui, it functions as a subjunctive of characteristic, describing the nature or expected behavior of the subject ("one who would answer").
- 5.3.12.prcontendet
The third-person singular future indicative of the verb contendere (to contend). Although parallel in thought to the preceding subjunctive responsurus sit, the use of the future indicative expresses a strong expectation that the person in fact will not make such a claim. Some manuscripts read the present subjunctive contendat in full parallel with responsurus sit.
- 5.3.12.prse heredem
An accusative with infinitive construction (accusativus cum infinitivo) serving as the object of the verb contendet, with the infinitive esse (to be) being omitted. The reflexive pronoun se refers back to the subject of the clause (the plunderer).