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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §2.11.1.pr

Calculation of Travel Time and Daily Standard for Appearance

Passage 328 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The praetor regulates that in calculating travel time for court appearances, twenty miles per day is the standard, excluding the day of the promise and the day of appearance.

[GAIUS libro primo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §2.11.1.prUicena milia passuum in singulos dies dinumerari praetor iubet praeter eum diem, quo cautum promittitur, et in quem sistere in iudicium oportet.
[GAIUS, in the first book on the Provincial Edict.] The praetor orders twenty miles to be allowed for each day, except for the day on which the security is promised, and that on which appearance in court is required.
nam sane talis itineris dinumeratio neutri litigatorum onerosa est.
For indeed, such a calculation of the journey is burdensome to neither of the litigants.

Notes

  1. §2.11.1.pruicena milia passuum — The distributive numeral uicena (twenty each) corresponds with in singulos dies (for each day) to express a rate of twenty miles per day. Milia passuum (literally twenty thousand paces) represents twenty Roman miles. The phrase acts as the subject accusative of the infinitive dinumerari, governed by iubet.
  2. §2.11.1.prin quem sistere in iudicium oportet — The antecedent eum diem is omitted, and in quem means "unto which [day]." Here, sistere is used intransitively (or with the reflexive pronoun se omitted) in the sense of "to appear," serving as the subject infinitive of the impersonal verb oportet.
  3. §2.11.1.prneutri litigatorum — Neutri is the dative singular of the pronominal adjective neuter (neither), functioning as a dative of reference with the adjective onerosa (burdensome). Litigatorum is the genitive plural of litigator, serving as a partitive genitive ("neither of the litigants").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §2.11.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.11.1.pr

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