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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §23.2.40.pr

Prohibition of Marriage with a Stepdaughter's Daughter

Passage 3346 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius reports the opinion of Aristo that marrying a stepdaughter's daughter is legally prohibited, just like marrying the stepdaughter herself.

[POMPONIUS libro quarto ex Plautio. ] §23.2.40.prAristo respondit priuignae filiam non magis uxorem duci posse quam ipsam priuignam.
[POMPONIUS, in the fourth book on Plautius.] Aristo replied that a stepdaughter's daughter can no more be married than the stepdaughter herself.

Notes

  1. §23.2.40.prnon magis uxorem duci posse quam ipsam priuignam — The comparative construction non magis ... quam ... expresses equal impossibility ("no more than"). The accusative ipsam priuignam after quam corresponds to the subject accusative priuignae filiam before it, implying the omission of the same accusative-with-infinitive structure [ipsam priuignam uxorem duci posse].

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §23.2.40.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:23.2.40.pr

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