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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.6.14.pr

Criteria for Vessels Included in a Bequest of Wine

Passage 5055 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Presents the criteria for which vessels accompany a bequest of wine, limiting them to temporary vessels not intended for perpetual use.

[POMPONIUS libro sexto ad Sabinum. ] §33.6.14.prUino legato ea demum uasa sequuntur, quae ita diffusa sunt, ut non ad perpetuum usum uasa reseruarentur, ueluti amphorae et cadi.
[POMPONIUS, On Sabinus, Book 6] When wine is bequeathed, only those vessels follow in which the wine has been so bottled that the vessels were not reserved for perpetual use, such as amphorae and cadi.

Notes

  1. §33.6.14.prUino legato — Ablative absolute consisting of the neuter singular ablative of uinum and legatum, expressing the conditional circumstance 'when wine is bequeathed'.
  2. §33.6.14.prsequuntur — Third-person plural present indicative of sequor ('to follow'). A legal term meaning that the accessory (the vessels) automatically goes along with the principal object (the wine) in the bequest.
  3. §33.6.14.prdiffusa sunt — Perfect passive third-person plural of diffundere, which means to draw off wine from a large vat into smaller vessels (bottling). Grammatically it agrees with the relative pronoun quae, but semantically it denotes that the wine was poured into these vessels.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.6.14.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.6.14.pr

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