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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §2.13.12.pr

Exclusion of Women from the Profession of Banking

Passage 364 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Callistratus states that women are regarded as excluded from the office of a banker because it is a masculine occupation.

[CALLISTRATUS libro primo edicti monitorii. ] §2.13.12.prFeminae remotae uidentur ab officio argentarii, cum ea opera uirilis sit.
[CALLISTRATUS, Monitory Edict, book 1] Women are regarded as excluded from the office of a banker, since that work is masculine.

Notes

  1. §2.13.12.prremotae uidentur — uidentur is the third-person plural present passive of uideo, taking the nominative subject complement remotae (nominative plural feminine of the adjective remotus, "excluded, removed"). In juridical Latin, the passive uideor often signifies not a mere subjective appearance ("seem, appear") but a normative determination ("are deemed, are regarded as").
  2. §2.13.12.prea opera uirilis sit — The conjunction cum introduces a causal clause with the subjunctive sit (third-person singular present subjunctive of sum). ea opera ("that work/labor", nominative singular feminine) is the subject, and uirilis ("manly, of a man") is the predicate adjective.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §2.13.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.13.12.pr

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