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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.19.21.pr

Celsus on Defining Ultimate Punishment as Death

Passage 8402 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Celsus states his definition that extreme punishment refers to death alone.

[CELSUS libro trigensimo septimo digestorum. ] §48.19.21.prUltimum supplicium esse mortem solam interpretamur.
[CELSUS, from the thirty-seventh book of the Digests.] We interpret extreme punishment to be death alone.

Notes

  1. §48.19.21.prUltimum supplicium esse mortem solam interpretamur — The verb `interpretamur` ("we interpret") takes an accusative with infinitive (A.c.I.) construction as its object, where `ultimum supplicium` ("extreme punishment") is the subject accusative and `mortem solam` ("death alone") is the predicate accusative.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.19.21.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.19.21.pr

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