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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.18.4.pr

Governor's Supreme Authority in the Province After the Emperor

Passage 206 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian states that a provincial governor holds the highest authority in his province, second only to the emperor.

[ULPIANUS libro trigensimo nono ad edictum. ] §1.18.4.prPraeses prouinciae maius imperium in ea prouincia habet omnibus post principem.
[ULPIAN, from the thirty-ninth book On the Edict.] The governor of a province has in that province a power greater than all others, next after the emperor.

Notes

  1. 1.18.4.promnibus — Ablative of comparison modifying the comparative `maius`, meaning 'greater than all others' in the province.
  2. 1.18.4.prpost principem — Preposition `post` with the accusative, meaning 'next after the emperor', indicating that the governor's power is second only to the princeps in his province.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.18.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.18.4.pr

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