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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.10.8.pr

Penalties for Counterfeiting and Clipping Gold Coins

Passage 8274 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Stipulates the penalties for clipping, coloring, or counterfeiting gold coins, distinguishing between free persons and slaves.

[ULPIANUS libro septimo de officio proconsulis. ] §48.10.8.prQuicumque nummos aureos partim raserint, partim tinxerint uel finxerint: si quidem liberi sunt, ad bestias dari, si serui, summo supplicio adfici debent.
[ULPIAN, On the Office of Proconsul, Book VII] Whoever have partly clipped, partly colored, or counterfeited gold coins: if indeed they are free, they ought to be given to the beasts; if slaves, they ought to be punished with the supreme penalty.

Notes

  1. §48.10.8.prQuicumque ... raserint — The verbs raserint, tinxerint, and finxerint in the clause introduced by the relative pronoun quicumque (whoever) are third-person plural perfect subjunctives (or future perfect indicatives), serving to anticipate the subject of the conditional clauses in the main sentence.
  2. §48.10.8.prad bestias dari — The passive infinitive dari depends on the verb debent at the end of the sentence, forming the passive obligational expression "ought to be given to the beasts." The verb debent is omitted in the preceding clause starting with si quidem liberi sunt.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.10.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.10.8.pr

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