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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.16.2.pr

Mitigated Punishment for Harboring Robbers Who Are Relatives

Passage 8083 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text discusses the punishment for those who harbor a robber who is a relative, stating they should not be punished too severely because their offense is not equal to harboring strangers.

[PAULUS libro singulari de poenis paganorum. ] §47.16.2.prEos, apud quos adfinis uel cognatus latro conseruatus est, neque absoluendos neque seuere admodum puniendos: non enim par est eorum delictum et eorum, qui nihil ad se pertinentes latrones recipiunt.
[PAULUS, in his single book on the punishments of civilians.] Those in whose homes a robber who is a relative by marriage or blood has been sheltered should neither be acquitted nor punished with excessive severity; for their offense is not equal to that of those who harbor robbers who are in no way related to them.

Notes

  1. §47.16.2.prneque absoluendos neque seuere admodum puniendos — An accusative with infinitive construction expressing obligation or necessity, with the copula esse omitted from the gerundives absoluendos and puniendos. The subject accusative is Eos at the beginning of the sentence.
  2. §47.16.2.prnihil ad se pertinentes — nihil functions adverbially meaning 'not at all', modifying the participle phrase ad se pertinentes ('relating to themselves'). The entire phrase modifies latrones.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.16.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.16.2.pr

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