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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.11.5.pr

Inciting Slaves to Flee to Statues to Defame Masters

Passage 8052 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It provides that severe punishment is inflicted, in addition to the civil action for corrupting a slave, against anyone who instigates a slave to flee to a statue to defame their master.

[ULPIANUS libro quinto de officio proconsulis. ] §47.11.5.prIn eum, cuius instinctu ad infamandum dominum seruus ad statuam confugisse compertus erit, praeter corrupti serui actionem, quae ex edicto perpetuo competit, seuere animaduertitur.
[ULPIANUS, from the fifth book On the Office of Proconsul.] Against a person by whose instigation a slave is found to have fled to a statue for the purpose of defaming his master, severe punishment is inflicted, in addition to the action for corrupting a slave which is available under the Perpetual Edict.

Notes

  1. §47.11.5.prIn eum ... seuere animaduertitur — The verb animaduertitur is used as an impersonal passive of animaduertere with the preposition in + accusative (in eum), meaning "severe punishment is inflicted upon him."
  2. §47.11.5.prseruus ... compertus erit confugisse — The nominative seruus acts as the subject of the passive main verb compertus erit, accompanied by the perfect infinitive confugisse, forming a nominative with infinitive (NCI) construction. The future perfect compertus erit functions conditionally to express the determination of legal fact ("if it is found that...").
  3. §47.11.5.prad infamandum dominum — A gerundive construction expressing purpose, where the preposition ad is followed by the gerundive infamandum and the accusative noun dominum which it modifies ("in order to defame the master").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.11.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.11.5.pr

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