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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §3.2.24.pr

Absence of Infamy for Earnings Made During Slavery

Passage 482 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

States that the Emperor Severus issued a rescript declaring that a woman's earnings obtained while in slavery did not damage her reputation.

[IDEM libro sexto ad edictum. ] §3.2.24.prImperator Seuerus rescripsit non offuisse mulieris famae quaestum eius in seruitute factum.
[THE SAME, in his Sixth Book on the Edict.] The Emperor Severus wrote in a rescript that a woman's earnings made while in slavery did not prejudice her reputation.

Notes

  1. §3.2.24.prnon offuisse mulieris famae quaestum eius in seruitute factum — An accusative-and-infinitive construction (indirect statement) depending on rescripsit. The infinitive is the perfect offuisse (from officio, 'to prejudice/harm', which takes the dative, here mulieris famae). Its subject accusative is quaestum... factum ('earnings made'). eius is the genitive of the demonstrative pronoun referring back to mulieris.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §3.2.24.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.2.24.pr

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