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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.17.3.pr

Dishonorable Discharge of Soldiers for Bathhouse Theft

Passage 8086 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus' opinion that a soldier caught in the act of a bathhouse theft must be discharged with ignominy.

[PAULUS libro singulari de poenis militum. ] §47.17.3.prMiles, qui in furto balneario adprehensus est, ignominia mitti debet.
[PAULUS, in the single book on the punishments of soldiers.] A soldier who has been caught in a bathhouse theft must be discharged with ignominy.

Notes

  1. §47.17.3.prignominia mitti — mitti is the present passive infinitive of mittere (to send away, dismiss, or discharge), governed by the modal verb debet. ignominia is the ablative singular of ignominia (ignominy, dishonor) functioning as an ablative of manner, which in a military legal context refers to being 'discharged with ignominy' (missio ignominiosa).
  2. §47.17.3.prin furto balneario — The preposition in with the ablative functions here to indicate the circumstances or being caught in the act ('in the course of' or 'during'). furtum balnearium (bathhouse theft) was a specific category of crime heavily prosecuted in Roman law, and the phrase modifies adprehensus est (was caught).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.17.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.17.3.pr

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