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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.9.2.pr

Disqualification of Expelled Senators from Judging and Testifying

Passage 161 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Cassius Longinus opines that a person removed from the senate for infamous conduct and not restored must not be allowed to act as a judge or give testimony, pursuant to the Julian law on extortion.

[MARCELLUS libro tertio digestorum. ] §1.9.2.prCassius Longinus non putat ei permittendum, qui propter turpitudinem senatu motus nec restitutus est, iudicare uel testimonium dicere, quia lex Iulia repetundarum hoc fieri uetat.
[MARCELLUS, Digests, book 3] Cassius Longinus does not think that it should be permitted to a person who, on account of an infamous conduct, has been removed from the senate and not restored, to act as a judge or to give testimony, because the Julian law on extortion forbids this to be done.

Notes

  1. 1.9.2.prei permittendum — The auxiliary verb 'esse' is omitted in the accusative-with-infinitive construction (permittendum esse). 'ei' is a dative (indirect object of 'permittere') serving as the antecedent of the relative clause, while the real subject of the gerundive is the subsequent infinitive phrase 'iudicare uel testimonium dicere'.
  2. 1.9.2.prsenatu motus — senatu is an ablative of separation depending on 'motus', the perfect participle of 'movere' (to remove, expel).
  3. 1.9.2.prlex Iulia repetundarum — repetundarum is the genitive plural feminine of the gerundive 'repetundus' used substantively, referring to recovery of extorted funds. It functions as a limiting (objective) genitive modifying 'lex Iulia'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.9.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.9.2.pr

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