- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
- Translation
- AI-generated (gemini-3.5-flash) — machine translation; may contain errors
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:9.2.26.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-15
Paulus presents a hypothetical case where the defendant confesses to the killing and is ready to pay, but the plaintiff estimates the value of the suit very highly.
[PAULUS libro uicensimo secundo ad edictum.]
[PAULUS, from the twenty-second book on the Edict.]
Puta1 enim, quod qui conuenitur fateatur se occidisse et paratus sit aestimationem soluere, et aduersarius magni2 litem aestimat.3
For suppose that the person who is sued confesses that he killed [the slave] and is prepared to pay the valuation, and [yet] his opponent values the suit at a high amount.
- 9.2.26.prPuta
The second-person singular imperative of putare ('to think'), used here to introduce a hypothetical scenario ('suppose, for example'). It governs the quod-clause with the subjunctives fateatur and paratus sit.
- 9.2.26.prmagni
A genitive of value, used with the verb aestimat to mean 'values at a high price' or 'estimates highly'.
- 9.2.26.praestimat
Unlike the preceding subjunctives fateatur and paratus sit in the quod-clause, this verb is in the present indicative. This shift indicates that the opponent's high valuation is presented as an objective fact placed in contrast, stepping outside the immediate syntactic dependency of the quod-clause.