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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.1.24.pr

Perpetual Legacy to a City for Quadrennial Games

Passage 4951 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text presents an imperial rescript clarifying that a legacy left to the city of Sardis for a four-year athletic contest is to be interpreted as a perpetual payment recurring every four years, rather than a single payment limited to the first four-year period.

[IDEM libro octauo institutionum. ] §33.1.24.prCum erat certa pecunia, id est centum, rei publicae Sardianorum relicta per quadriennium certaminis Chrysanthiani, diui Seuerus et Antoninus rescribserunt uideri perpetuam pensitationem reliquisse testatorem per quadriennium, non in primum quadriennium.
[THE SAME, Institutes, book VIII.] When a certain sum of money, that is, one hundred, had been left to the municipality of the Sardians for the four-year period of the Chrysanthian contest, the divine Severus and Antoninus replied by rescript that the testator seemed to have left a perpetual payment for each four-year period, not merely for the first four-year period.

Notes

  1. §33.1.24.pruideri — Infinitive acting as the main verb of the indirect discourse depending on "rescribserunt". Its subject is the accusative-with-infinitive clause "testatorem ... reliquisse".
  2. §33.1.24.prper quadriennium ... non in primum quadriennium — Contrast between the prepositions "per" and "in". "per quadriennium" implies recurring intervals of four years (for every four-year period), whereas "in primum quadriennium" indicates a limitation to the specific first four-year period.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.1.24.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.1.24.pr

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