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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.9.10.pr

Prevention of Deceptive Beacon Lights and Plunder

Passage 7997 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It prescribes that the governor of the province must strictly ensure that fishermen do not deceive navigators with lights at night to cause shipwreck and plunder.

[ULPIANUS libro primo opinionum. ] §47.9.10.prNe piscatores nocte lumine ostenso fallant nauigantes, quasi in portum aliquem delaturi, eoque modo in periculum naues et qui in eis sunt deducant sibique execrandam praedam parent, praesidis prouinciae religiosa constantia efficiat.
[ULPIANUS, Opinions, book one.] The conscientious firmness of the governor of the province should ensure that fishermen do not, by displaying a light at night, deceive navigators as if they were about to bring them into some port, and in this manner bring the ships and those who are in them into danger, and procure for themselves an accursed booty.

Notes

  1. §47.9.10.prne ... efficiat — The main verb is efficiat at the end (subjunctive present active third-person singular, representing a hortatory or jussive expression), whose subject is praesidis provinciae religiosa constantia (the conscientious firmness of the governor of the province). The clause introduced by ne functions as the object of efficere (to bring it about that... not).
  2. §47.9.10.prquasi in portum aliquem delaturi — delaturi is the nominative plural of the future active participle delaturus, agreeing with piscatores (the subject of the ne-clause). Together with the conjunction quasi, it expresses a subjective intention or pretense ('as if they were about to bring...').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.9.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.9.10.pr

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