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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.9.1.pr-1.9.1.1

Precedence of Consular and Prefectorian Ranks and Title of Consular Women

Passage 160 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses the precedence of status among consular men and women and prefectorian men, and clarifies that the title of "consular women" refers only to the wives of consular men, excluding their mothers.

[ULPIANUS libro sexagensimo secundo ad edictum. ] §1.9.1.prConsulari feminae utique consularem uirum praeferendum nemo ambigit.
[ULPIANUS, On the Edict, book 62] No one doubts that a consular man is certainly to be preferred to a consular woman.
sed uir praefectorius an consulari feminae praeferatur, uidendum.
But whether a prefectorian man is to be preferred to a consular woman is to be considered.
putem praeferri, quia maior dignitas est in sexu uirili.
I should think that he is preferred, because there is greater dignity in the male sex.
§1.9.1.1Consulares autem feminas dicimus consularium uxores: adicit Saturninus etiam matres, quod nec usquam relatum est nec umquam receptum.
Moreover, by "consular women" we mean the wives of consular men; Saturninus adds even mothers, which has neither been recorded anywhere nor ever accepted.

Notes

  1. 1.9.1.prConsulari feminae utique consularem uirum praeferendum nemo ambigit — Accusative and infinitive construction (with esse omitted after the gerundive praeferendum) acting as the object of ambigit, meaning 'no one doubts that...'. Consulari feminae is the dative governed by praeferendum.
  2. 1.9.1.prputem — First-person singular present subjunctive, used as a potential subjunctive of modest assertion ('I should think' or 'I would think').
  3. 1.9.1.1quod — Neuter singular nominative relative pronoun. Its antecedent is not a single word but the entire preceding clause or action of Saturninus adding mothers as well.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.9.1.pr-1.9.1.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.9.1.pr-1.9.1.1

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