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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.16.10.pr-1.16.10.1

Duty to Serve until Successor Arrives and Dismissal of Legates

Passage 195 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section dictates that a proconsul must continue to discharge all duties and administer justice until his successor's arrival, and forbids him from dismissing his legate before his own departure.

[IDEM libro decimo de officio proconsulis. ] §1.16.10.prMeminisse oportebit usque ad aduentum successoris omnia debere proconsulem agere, cum sit unus proconsulatus et utilitas prouinciae exigat esse aliquem, per quem negotia sua prouinciales explicent: ergo in aduentum successoris debebit ius dicere.
[THE SAME, from the tenth book On the Office of Proconsul.] It must be remembered that the proconsul ought to administer everything until the arrival of his successor, since the proconsulship is one and the utility of the province requires that there be someone through whom the provincials may dispatch their affairs; therefore, he must administer justice until the arrival of his successor.
§1.16.10.1Legatum suum ne ante se de prouincia dimittat, et lege Iulia repetundarum et rescripto diui Hadriani ad Calpurnium Rufum proconsulem Achaiae admonetur.
That he should not dismiss his legate from the province before himself is cautioned both by the Julian law on extortion and by a rescript of the divine Hadrian to Calpurnius Rufus, proconsul of Achaea.

Notes

  1. 1.16.10.prMeminisse oportebit ... debere proconsulem agere — The impersonal future verb oportebit takes the infinitive meminisse, which in turn governs an accusative and infinitive construction (debere proconsulem agere) where proconsulem is the subject accusative of debere, and debere itself takes the complementary infinitive agere.
  2. 1.16.10.prin aduentum — The preposition in with the accusative noun aduentum. It denotes a temporal limit or prospective target date, meaning "until the arrival" or "looking forward to the arrival" of the successor.
  3. 1.16.10.1Legatum suum ne ante se de prouincia dimittat — The clause introduced by ne represents the content of an indirect command or prohibition required by the passive verb admonetur ("is warned/cautioned") at the end of the sentence, showing the construction admoneri ut/ne.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.16.10.pr-1.16.10.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.16.10.pr-1.16.10.1

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