[IDEM libro sexto excusationum. ] §27.1.15.prΣπάδοντα χειροτονήσουσιν ἐπίτροπον· οὐδεμίαν γὰρ ἔχει παραίτησιν, ὡς δείκνυσιν διάταξις τῶν αὐτοκρατόρων Σεβήρου καὶ ᾿Αντωνίνου.
[THE SAME, from the sixth book on excuses.] They shall appoint a eunuch as tutor; for he has no excuse, as a rescript of the Emperors Severus and Antoninus shows.
§27.1.15.1Ὁ τῷ πατρὶ ἐπαγγειλάμενος ἐπιτροπεύειν τῶν παίδων ἀφίεσθαι ταύτης τῆς ἐπιτροπῆς οὐ δύναται, κἂν ἄλλως ἔχῃ δίκαια ἀφέσεως.
He who has promised a father to undertake the tutorship of his children cannot be excused from this tutorship, even if he otherwise has grounds for excuse.
§27.1.15.2Εἰδέναι δεῖ ὅτι ἀξίωμα οὐδενὶ παρέξει παραίτησιν.
It must be known that rank will provide an excuse to no one.
ὅθεν ἐάν τις συγκλητικὸς ᾖ, οὗτος ἐπιτροπεύσει καὶ τῶν καταδεεστέρας τάξεως ὄντων συγκλητικῶν, ὅπερ ἀντέγραψαν οἱ θειότατοι Μάρκος καὶ Κόμμοδος.
Hence, if anyone is a senator, he shall also undertake the tutorship of senators of a lower rank, as the most divine Marcus and Commodus replied in a rescript.
§27.1.15.3Εἰ δέ τις ἐπίτροπος ἢ κουράτωρ ὢν μὴ συγκλητικοῦ ἢ ἄλλως ἀξιωματικοῦ, εἶτα ὕστερον γένηται συγκλητικός, διηνεκῶς ἀπολύεται τῆς φροντίδος.
But if anyone, being a tutor or curator of a person who is not a senator or otherwise of high rank, should afterwards become a senator, he is permanently released from the duty.
εἰ δὲ οἱ ἐπιτροπευόμενοι ἢ κουρατορευόμενοι παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ παῖδες ἦσαν συγκλητικοῦ, οὐκ ἀπολύεται τῆς ἐπιτροπῆς.
But if the children tutored or curated by him were of a senator, he is not released from the tutorship.
§27.1.15.4Ὁμοίως δὲ ὁ καταδεεστέρας τάξεως ὢν οὐ παραιτήσεται ἐπιτροπεύειν ἢ κουρατορεύειν τῶν μειζόνων.
Likewise, he who is of a lower rank shall not excuse himself from undertaking the tutorship or curatorship of those of higher rank.
§27.1.15.5Μηδὲ λιβραρίους μηδὲ καλκουλάτορας, οὓς διαψηφιστὰς λέγομεν, ἔχειν ἀλειτουργησίαν λέγουσιν αἱ θεῖαι διατάξεις.
Neither clerks nor calculators, whom we call auditors, possess immunity from public duties, as the divine rescripts state.
§27.1.15.6Ἤδη δὲ καὶ οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι τῶν μὴ Ἰουδαίων ἐπιτροπεύσουσιν, ὥσπερ καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ λειτουργήσουσιν· αἱ γὰρ διατάξεις ἐκείνοις μόνοις ἀνενοχλήτους αὐτοὺς εἶναι κελεύουσιν, δι᾽ ὧν ἡ θρησκεία χραίνεσθαι δοκεῖ.
And now Jews shall also undertake the tutorship of non-Jews, just as they shall perform other public duties; for the rescripts command that they be undisturbed only by those duties through which their religion seems to be defiled.
§27.1.15.7Λογιστεία πόλεως οὐδὲ εἰς ἀριθμὸν μιᾶς ἐπιτροπῆς προχωρεῖ.
The administration of a city's accounts does not count even toward the number of one tutorship.
Ἀπελεύθεροι γυναικῶν συγκλητικῶν, §27.1.15.8κἂν διοικῶσιν τὰ αὐτῶν πράγματα, οὐκ ἀπολύονται ἐπιτροπῶν· τοῦτο γὰρ τοῖς τῶν ἀρρένων συγκλητικῶν ἀπελευθέροις μόνοις συγκεχώρηται.
The freedmen of senatorial women, even if they manage their property, are not released from tutorships; for this has been granted only to the freedmen of male senators.
§27.1.15.9Ἐὰν ὁ τῆς πόλεως ἄρχων, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστιν ὁ στρατηγὸς διαπιπτούσης αὐτῷ τῆς χειροτονίας ὑπεύθυνος γένηται κινδύνῳ ἐπιτροπῆς, ταύτην οὐ συναριθμήσει ἄλλαις ἐπιτροπαῖς, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ ὁ ἐγγυησάμενος ἐπιτροπήν, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲ οἱ κατὰ τιμὴν ἐπίτροποι γραφέντες.
If the magistrate of a city, that is, the strategos, through the failure of his appointment of another, becomes liable to the risk of a tutorship, he shall not reckon this with other tutorships; neither shall he who has stood surety for a tutorship, nor those who have been written as tutors merely for honor's sake.
§27.1.15.10Ὁ τέλη μεμισθωμένος παρὰ πόλεων οὐκ ἀφίεται ἐπιτροπῆς.
He who has farmed taxes from cities is not excused from tutorship.
§27.1.15.11Ὁ πολλὰ δίκαια ἔχων εἰπεῖν, ὧν ἕκαστον καθ᾽ ἑαυτὸ οὐκ ἔστιν ἰσχυρόν, εἰ δυνήσεται ἀφεθῆναι ἐζητήθη.
It was asked whether he who has many grounds to allege, none of which is strong by itself, can be excused.
οἷον ἑβδομήκοντα μὲν ἐτῶν οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲ τρεῖς ἔχει ἐπιτροπὰς οὐδὲ πέντε τέκνα ἢ ἄλλο τι δίκαιον ἀφέσεως, ἔχει μέντοι δύο ἐπιτροπὰς καὶ δύο παῖδας καὶ ἑξήκοντα ἐστὶν ἐτῶν, ἢ ἄλλα τινὰ τοιαῦτα λέγει καθ᾽ ἑαυτὰ μὲν ἐντελῆ τὴν βοήθειαν μὴ παρέχοντα, τῇ δὲ πρὸς ἄλληλα κοινωνίᾳ ὄντα δικαιοφανῆ.
For example, he is not seventy years old, nor does he have three tutorships, nor five children, nor any other ground of excuse, but he has two tutorships and two children and is sixty years old, or alleges other such things which, while not providing complete relief by themselves, appear plausible by their combination with one another.
ἀλλ᾽ ἔδοξεν τοῦτον μὴ ἀφίεσθαι.
But it was decided that he is not to be excused.
§27.1.15.12Ὁ λαβὼν ἢ ἔχων ἀλειτουργησίαν πολιτικῶν ἢ δημοσίων λειτουργιῶν οὗτος ἐπιτροπῆς οὐκ ἀφεθήσεται.
He who has received or possesses immunity from municipal or public duties shall not be excused from tutorship.
Ὁ ἀπολυθεὶς §27.1.15.13ἐπιτροπῆς ἢ κουρατορίας οὐ πάντως τοῖς ὑπομνήμασιν πρὸς ἄφεσιν ἑτέρας χειροτονίας χρήσεται, ἐὰν μὴ ὑπάρχῃ αὐτῷ δίκαια ἀφέσεως.
He who has been released from a tutorship or curatorship shall not by all means use the records for the excuse of another appointment, unless he possesses grounds for excuse.
§27.1.15.14Ὁ φάσκων ἑαυτὸν ἄγνωστον εἶναι τῷ πατρὶ ἢ τῇ μητρὶ τοῦ ὀρφανοῦ οὐ διὰ τοῦτο ἀφεθήσεται.
He who asserts that he is unknown to the father or the mother of the orphan shall not be excused on this account.
§27.1.15.15Ἔσθ᾽ ὅτε καὶ ὁ τρεῖς ἔχων ἐπιτροπὰς ἢ κουρατορίας οὐκ ἔχει δίκαιον ἀφέσεως, οἷον ἐάν τις ἐπιτηδεύσῃ ἀναδέξασθαι.
Sometimes even he who has three tutorships or curatorships has no ground of excuse, for instance, if he has contrived to undertake them.
ἤδη δὲ καὶ ὁ μετρίου γενόμενος ἐπίτροπος ἐπιτηδεῦσαι δοκεῖ.
And already, he who has become tutor to a person of moderate means is deemed to have contrived it.
§27.1.15.16Ulpianus libro singulari de excusationibus ita scribit: Si quis inter tres tutelas emancipati filii sui tutelam administret, an ei haec in numerum procedit, scio dubitatum: inuenio tamen rescriptum emancipatae filiae tutelam numerari inter onera oportere. §27.1.15.17Ἐάν τις χειροτονηθῇ ἐπίτροπος ὢν ἐν τῇ τοῦ πατρὸς ἐξουσίᾳ, εἶτα ὁ πατὴρ μὴ βούλοιτο ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ ἀσφαλίζεσθαι, ἐκέλευσαν οἱ νόμοι καὶ αὐτὸν τὸν πατέρα χειροτονεῖσθαι ἐπίτροπον, ὡς μηδενὶ τρόπῳ διακρουσθῇ τὸ ἐπὶ τῇ ἐπιτροπῇ ἀσφαλές, ὡς δηλοῖ τοῦ θείου ᾿Αδριανοῦ διάταξις· 'Imperator Hadrianus Uitrasio Pollioni legato Lygdonensi.
Ulpian writes as follows in his single book on excuses: "If anyone, among three tutorships, should administer the tutorship of his emancipated son, I know it has been doubted whether this counts toward the number for him; I find, however, a rescript stating that the tutorship of an emancipated daughter ought to be counted among the burdens." If anyone is appointed tutor while being in the power of his father, and then the father is unwilling to provide security on his behalf, the laws have commanded that the father himself also be appointed tutor, so that the security concerning the tutorship may in no way be defeated, as a constitution of the divine Hadrian declares: 'Emperor Hadrian to Vitrasius Pollio, legate of Lyonesse.
Si Clodius Macer, quamuis filius familias sit, idoneus tutor esse uidebitur, pater autem eius idcirco cauere non uult, ut filium suum tutela eximat, et in hoc artificio perseuerauerit, existimo te huic fraudi recte occursurum, ut et filius et ipse ad tutelam liberorum Clementis gerendam compellantur.
If Clodius Macer, although he is a son in power, shall seem a suitable tutor, and his father is unwilling to provide security for this reason, so that he may exempt his son from the tutorship, and has persisted in this artifice, I think you will rightly oppose this fraud, so that both the son and he himself may be compelled to undertake the tutorship of the children of Clemens.'