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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §21.1.53.pr

Soundness Denied in Remission for Intermittent Diseases

Passage 3069 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The passage states that those suffering from chronic but intermittent diseases like tertian or quartan fever, gout, or epilepsy cannot be legally declared "healthy" even during temporary remissions.

[IAUOLENUS libro primo ex posterioribus Labeonis. ] §21.1.53.prQui tertiana aut quartana febri aut podagra uexarentur quiue comitialem morbum haberent, ne quidem his diebus, quibus morbus uacaret, recte sani dicentur.
[IAVOLENUS in the first book of his Epitome of Labeo’s Posterior Works.] Those who are afflicted with a tertian or quartan fever, or with gout, or who have epilepsy, will not, even on those days when the disease is inactive, be correctly said to be healthy.

Notes

  1. §21.1.53.prQui tertiana aut quartana febri aut podagra uexarentur quiue comitialem morbum haberent — A relative clause with the omitted antecedent (*ei*). The imperfect subjunctives (`uexarentur`, `haberent`) characterize a generic class of persons, or represent a hypothetical category, also influenced by the indirect discourse of Labeo's original text.
  2. §21.1.53.prne quidem his diebus — Although `ne ... quidem` is typically split by the emphasized word, here `ne quidem` is placed together directly before `his diebus`, emphasizing the negation with the sense of "not even on these days."
  3. §21.1.53.pruacaret — The imperfect subjunctive in the relative clause `quibus...` denotes a hypothetical state of temporary remission and is subordinated to the past framing or indirect speech of Labeo's view.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §21.1.53.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:21.1.53.pr

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