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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §34.2.4.pr

Purple Goods Bought in Lifetime and Legacy of Wool

Passage 5163 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Servius's response that if a freedman, sent to Asia to buy purple products, purchased them during the testator's lifetime, they are included in the bequest of "purple wool" to the wife.

[PAULUS libro quinquagesimo quarto ad edictum. ] §34.2.4.prCum quidam libertum suum in Asiam misisset ad purpuras emendas et testamento uxori suae lanam purpuream legasset, pertinere ad eam, si quam purpuram uiuo eo libertus emisset, Seruius respondit.
[PAULUS, in the fifty-fourth book on the Edict.] Servius answered that, when a certain man had sent his freedman to Asia to buy purple products and had by testament bequeathed purple wool to his wife, if the freedman had bought any purple while he was alive, it belonged to her.

Notes

  1. §34.2.4.prad purpuras emendas — The gerundive construction with the preposition ad and the accusative gerundive emendas agreeing with the noun purpuras, expressing purpose ('to buy purple products'). Here, purpurae in the plural refers generally to purple fabrics or dyes.
  2. §34.2.4.prpertinere — An accusative with infinitive construction in indirect discourse depending on the main verb respondit. The subject of the infinitive pertinere is implied from the object of the conditional clause (the purple products bought by the freedman).
  3. §34.2.4.pruiuo eo — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the pronoun eo (referring to the testator) and the adjective uiuo, expressing the temporal circumstance 'while he was alive'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §34.2.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:34.2.4.pr

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