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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.22.6.pr

Eligibility of Local Citizens as Assessors to Curators

Passage 239 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinian states that a citizen of the same community is permitted to sit as an assessor on the council of the curator of that community, on the grounds that he does not receive a public salary.

[PAPINIANUS libro primo responsorum. ] §1.22.6.prIn consilium curatoris rei publicae uir eiusdem ciuitatis adsidere non prohibetur, quia publico salario non fruitur.
[PAPINIANUS, Opinions, Book One.] A man of the same community is not prohibited from sitting as an assessor on the council of a curator of the community, because he does not enjoy a public salary.

Notes

  1. §1.22.6.prcuratoris rei publicae — Here, "res publica" refers not to the Roman state as a whole, but to an individual local municipality (community). The "curator (rei publicae)" was an official appointed by the emperor to oversee and manage the finances and administration of that city.
  2. §1.22.6.prpublico salario non fruitur — The verb "fruor" (to enjoy, receive), which governs the ablative case, is used here with the ablative noun phrase "publico salario" (a public salary).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.22.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.22.6.pr

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