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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.19.36.pr

Those Condemned to Mines as Slaves of Punishment

Passage 8417 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that those condemned to the mines or to the service of the miners become "slaves of punishment" (servi poenae), rather than ordinary private slaves.

[HERMOGENIANUS libro primo iuris epitomarum. ] §48.19.36.prIn metallum, sed et in ministerium metallicorum damnati serui efficiuntur, sed poenae.
[HERMOGENIANUS, from the First Book of Epitomes of Law.] Those condemned to the mines, or even to the service of the miners, become slaves, but slaves of the punishment.

Notes

  1. §48.19.36.prpoenae — Genitive singular of the feminine noun poena (punishment), understood by supplying the preceding noun serui to form 'slaves of punishment' (serui poenae). This is a technical legal term referring to a state of public slavery where the condemned belong to the state rather than to a private master.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.19.36.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.19.36.pr

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