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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.10.10.pr

The Legal Definition of Attempting Chastity

Passage 8009 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains the legal definition of "attempting chastity" as an attempt to make a chaste person unchaste.

[PAULUS libro quinquagensimo quinto ad edictum. ] §47.10.10.prAdtemptari pudicitia dicitur, cum id agitur, ut ex pudico inpudicus fiat.
[PAULUS, On the Edict, book fifty-five.] Chastity is said to be attempted when this is aimed at, that a chaste person becomes unchaste.

Notes

  1. §47.10.10.prid agitur, ut — The pronoun `id` anticipates the following `ut` clause (prolepsis). It is the passive of `agere ut...` (to strive or aim to do something), meaning "it is aimed at that..." or "it is attempted that...".
  2. §47.10.10.prex pudico — The preposition `ex` (governing the ablative) indicates the starting point of a transition, and `pudico` is the substantivated masculine singular ablative of the adjective `pudicus` (chaste). It expresses the transition "from being a chaste person (to becoming unchaste)".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.10.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.10.10.pr

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