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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.6.1.pr-43.6.1.3

The Interdict Prohibiting Harm to Sacred Places

Passage 7046 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains the praetorian interdict prohibiting actions and introductions in sacred places, clarifying that it applies to public sacred places rather than private shrines, targets acts causing disfigurement or inconvenience rather than ornamentation, and identifies those responsible for their care.

[ULPIANUS libro sexagensimo octauo ad edictum. ] §43.6.1.prAit praetor: 'In loco sacro facere inue eum immittere quid ueto'. §43.6.1.1Hoc interdictum de sacro loco, non de sacrario competit.
[ULPIAN, from his commentary on the Edict, book sixty-eight.] The praetor says: "I forbid [anyone] to do anything in a sacred place, or to introduce anything into it." This interdict is available concerning a sacred place, not concerning a shrine.
§43.6.1.2Quod ait praetor, ne quid in loco sacro fiat, non ad hoc pertinet, quod ornamenti causa fit, sed quod deformitatis uel incommodi.
What the praetor says, that nothing is to be done in a sacred place, does not apply to what is done for the sake of ornament, but to what is done for the sake of disfigurement or inconvenience.
§43.6.1.3Sed et cura aedium locorumque sacrorum mandata est his, qui aedes sacras curant.
But also, the care of sacred buildings and places is entrusted to those who take care of sacred buildings.

Notes

  1. §43.6.1.prinue — The preposition `in` with the enclitic disjunctive conjunction `-ue` ("or"). The subsequent pronoun `eum` (accusative singular masculine) refers back to `loco` (from `loco sacro`).
  2. §43.6.1.2Quod ait praetor — The initial `Quod` is used as a conjunction of respect ("As to what the praetor says"). The clause `ne quid in loco sacro fiat` ("lest anything be done in a sacred place") explains the content of `ait` in apposition.
  3. §43.6.1.2sed quod deformitatis uel incommodi — The verb `fit` is elided after `quod`, and `causa` is elided after `deformitatis uel incommodi`. The full underlying structure is `sed ad id quod deformitatis uel incommodi causa fit pertinet` ("but it applies to that which is done for the sake of disfigurement or inconvenience").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.6.1.pr-43.6.1.3. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.6.1.pr-43.6.1.3

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