Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.19.30.pr

Exile to an Island for Terrifying People with Superstition

Passage 8411 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It reports a rescript of the divine Marcus Aurelius ruling that those who terrify people's minds with superstition of a deity should be relegated to an island.

[MODESTINUS libro primo de poenis. ] §48.19.30.prSi quis aliquid fecerit, quo leues hominum animi superstitione numinis terrentur, diuus Marcus huiusmodi homines in insulam relegari rescripsit.

[MODESTINUS, from the first book on Punishments.] If anyone has done something by which the fickle minds of men are terrified by superstition of a divinity, the divine Marcus rescribed that men of this kind should be relegated to an island.

Notes

§48.19.30.prquo — The ablative of the relative pronoun qui, referring back to the antecedent aliquid, expressing means ("by which"). The verb terrentur in the relative clause is in the indicative present, describing a factual state that results from the action.
§48.19.30.prrelegari — Present passive infinitive, forming an accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction introduced by rescripsit ("rescribed"), with huiusmodi homines as its subject. It carries a jussive or obligational force ("should be relegated") representing the imperial ruling.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.19.30.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.19.30.pr

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