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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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Paulus discusses the assessment of damages under the Lex Aquilia when a creditor kills the cheaper slave of an alternative obligation before default, and the effect if the other slave subsequently dies.
[PAULUS libro uicensimo secundo quaestionum.]
[PAULUS, in the twenty-second book of Questions.]
Stichum aut Pamphilum promisi Titio, cum Stichus esset decem milium, Pamphilus uiginti:1 stipulator Stichum ante moram occidit: quaesitum est de actione legis Aquiliae. respondi: cum uiliorem occidisse proponitur, in hunc tractatum nihilum differt ab extraneo creditor. quanti igitur fiet aestimatio, utrum decem milium, quanti fuit occisus, an quanti est, quem necesse habeo dare, id est quanti mea interest?2 et quid dicemus, si et Pamphilus decesserit sine mora? iam pretium Stichi minuetur, quoniam liberatus est promissor? et sufficiet3 fuisse pluris cum occideretur uel intra annum. hac quidem ratione etiam si post mortem Pamphili intra annum occidatur,4 pluris uidebitur fuisse.
I promised Stichus or Pamphilus to Titius, when Stichus was worth ten thousand [sesterces] and Pamphilus twenty thousand. The stipulator killed Stichus before default; the question was raised concerning the action under the Lex Aquilia. I replied: when it is proposed that [the creditor] killed the cheaper one, in this discussion the creditor differs in no way from a stranger. How much, then, will the assessment be: whether ten thousand, the value of the one killed, or the value of the one I am under a necessity to give, that is, the amount of my interest? And what shall we say if Pamphilus also should die without default? Will the price of Stichus now be reduced, since the promisor has been released? Or will it suffice that he was of higher value when he was killed, or within the year? Indeed, by this reasoning, even if he is killed within a year after the death of Pamphilus, he will seem to have been of higher value.
- 9.2.55.prdecem milium, uiginti
Genitive of value (genitivus pretii). The currency unit (such as sestertium) and the word milium after uiginti are omitted.
- 9.2.55.prquanti mea interest
Syntax of the impersonal verb interest. The degree of interest (amount of damage) is expressed by the genitive of value quanti, and the person interested is indicated by mea, a form derived from the feminine ablative singular of the possessive adjective.
- 9.2.55.pret sufficiet
The coordinating conjunction et introduces an alternative question to the preceding one (iam pretium...), functioning as "Or will it suffice...?"
- 9.2.55.prpost mortem Pamphili intra annum occidatur
The verb occidatur is in the present subjunctive, which, in combination with the conditional conjunction etiam si, presents a hypothetical future scenario.