[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo tertio ad edictum. ] §11.3.1.prAit praetor: 'Qui seruum seruam alienum alienam recepisse persuasisseue quid ei dicetur dolo malo, quo eum eam deteriorem faceret, in eum quanti ea res erit in duplum iudicium dabo. ' §11.3.1.1Qui bona fide seruum emit, hoc edicto non tenebitur, quia nec ipse poterit serui corrupti agere, quia nihil eius interest seruum non corrumpi: et sane, si quis hoc admiserit, eueniet ut duobus actio serui corrupti competat, quod est absurdum.
[ULPIAN, from the twenty-third book on the Edict.] The praetor says: 'Whoever is said to have received another's male or female slave, or to have persuaded him or her of something, with evil intent in order to make him or her worse, against him I will grant an action for double of what the matter shall be worth.' He who buys a slave in good faith will not be covered by this edict, because he himself cannot bring the action for a corrupted slave, since he has no interest in the slave not being corrupted; and indeed, if any one should admit this, it will result in the action for a corrupted slave belonging to two persons, which is absurd.
sed nec eum, cui bona fide homo liber seruit, hanc actionem posse exercere opinamur.
But we also opine that he whom a free person serves in good faith cannot exercise this action.
§11.3.1.2Quod autem praetor ait 'recepisse', ita accipimus, si susceperit seruum alienum ad se: et est proprie recipere refugium abscondendi caussa seruo praestare uel in suo agro uel in alieno loco aedificioue.
Moreover, what the praetor says, namely 'to have received', we understand in this way: if he has taken another's slave to himself; and 'to receive' properly is to provide a refuge to a slave for the purpose of hiding him, either on one's own land or in another's place or building.
§11.3.1.3Persuadere autem est plus quam compelli atque cogi sibi parere.
To persuade, moreover, is more than to be compelled and forced to obey someone.
sed persuadere τῶν μέσων ἐστίν, nam et bonum consilium quis dando potest suadere et malum: et ideo praetor adiecit 'dolo malo, quo eum deteriorem faceret': neque enim delinguit, nisi qui tale aliquid seruo persuadet, ex quo eum faciat deteriorem.
But persuasion is one of the indifferent things (τῶν μέσων); for one can persuade by giving good advice as well as bad. And therefore the praetor added 'with evil intent, by which he might make him worse'; for he does not commit a wrong unless he is someone who persuades a slave of something of such a nature as to make him worse.
qui igitur seruum sollicitat ad aliquid uel faciendum uel cogitandum improbe, hic uidetur hoc edicto notari.
Therefore, he who solicits a slave to do or to think something wickedly is deemed to be targeted by this edict.
§11.3.1.4Sed utrum ita demum tenetur, si bonae frugi seruum perpulit ad delinquendum, an uero et si malum hortatus est uel malo monstrauit, quemadmodum faceret? et est uerius etiam si malo monstrauit, in quem modum delinqueret, teneri eum.
But is he liable only if he urged an honest slave to commit a wrong, or indeed also if he encouraged a bad one, or showed a bad one how he should do it? And it is more correct that even if he showed a bad one in what manner he should commit a wrong, he is liable.
immo et si erat seruus omnimodo fugiturus uel furtum facturus, hic uero laudator huius propositi extitit, tenetur: non enim oportet laudando augeri malitiam.
Nay, even if the slave was altogether about to run away or commit a theft, and this person stood out as an applauder of this purpose, he is liable; for wickedness ought not to be increased by praising.
siue ergo bonum seruum fecerit malum siue malum fecerit deteriorem, corrupisse uidebitur.
Therefore, whether he made a good slave bad or a bad slave worse, he will be deemed to have corrupted him.
§11.3.1.5Is quoque deteriorem facit, qui seruo persuadet, ut iniuriam faceret uel furtum uel fugeret uel alienum seruum ut sollicitaret uel ut peculium intricaret, aut amator existeret uel erro uel malis artibus esset deditus uel in spectaculis nimius uel seditiosus: uel si actori suasit uerbis siue pretio, ut rationes dominicas intercideret adulteraret uel etiam ut rationem sibi commissam turbaret:
He also makes a slave worse, who persuades him to commit an injury or a theft, or to flee, or to solicit another's slave, or to entangle his peculium, or to become a lover, or a vagrant, or to be devoted to evil practices, or to be excessive in attending spectacles, or to be rebellious; or if he persuaded a business-manager by words or by a bribe to suppress or falsify the master's accounts, or even to throw into disorder the account committed to him: