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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.9.3.pr

Residence in Rome and Status Retention of Expelled Senators

Passage 162 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The rescript of the deified Severus and Antoninus permitting a senator removed from the senate to retain his status and to reside in Rome.

[MODESTINUS libro sexto regularum. ] §1.9.3.prSenatorem remotum senatu capite non minui, sed Romae morari diuus Seuerus et Antoninus permiserunt.
[MODESTINUS, Rules, book 6] The deified Severus and Antoninus permitted a senator who had been removed from the senate not to suffer a loss of status, but to remain in Rome.

Notes

  1. 1.9.3.prcapite non minui — The phrase capite minui (the verbal form of capitis deminutio) refers to the loss or reduction of civil status or legal capacity in Roman law. Capite is an ablative of specification or separation, and minui is the present passive infinitive of minuere, forming part of the accusative-and-infinitive construction with senatorem as its subject.
  2. 1.9.3.prremotum senatu — Remotum is a perfect passive participle modifying senatorem, which is the subject of the infinitive clause. Senatu is an ablative of separation, standardly required by the verb removere (to remove).
  3. 1.9.3.prRomae morari — Romae is the locative singular of the place name Roma, meaning 'in Rome'. Morari is the present infinitive of the deponent verb moror, serving as the second infinitive in the accusative-and-infinitive construction governed by permiserunt.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.9.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.9.3.pr

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