Absence of Mourning Obligation for Wives and Betrothed

Notes

1. §3.2.9.pruiri — uiri is the nominative plural of uir, serving as the subject of the main verb non compelluntur. uxores is the accusative plural of uxor, acting as the object of the infinitive lugere. Although the morphological ambiguity of both words (uxores can be nominative or accusative plural; uiri can be genitive singular or nominative plural) might suggest a reading like 'the wives (uxores) of the husband (uiri)...', the legal context—where women were obliged to mourn their husbands but men were under no legal obligation to mourn their wives—determines that uiri is the subject ('husbands') and uxores is the object ('wives').
2. §3.2.9.1Sponsi — Genitive singular of sponsus (betrothed male). It functions as an objective genitive modifying luctus, meaning 'mourning for a betrothed'.