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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.19.40.pr

Deportation and Relegation for Harboring Fleeing Enemies

Passage 8421 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text reports the legal ruling that Metrodorus be deported to an island for knowingly harboring a fleeing enemy, and that Philoctetes be relegated to an island for long dissembling his knowledge of it.

[PAULUS libro tertio decretorum. ] §48.19.40.prMetrodorum, cum hostem fugientem sciens susceperit, in insulam deportari, Philocteten, quod occultari eum non ignorans diu dissimulauerit, in insulam relegari placet.
[PAULUS, from the Third Book of Decrees.] It is ruled that Metrodorus, since he knowingly harbored a fleeing enemy, be deported to an island, and that Philoctetes, because he was not ignorant that the former was being hidden and dissembled it for a long time, be relegated to an island.

Notes

  1. §48.19.40.prplacet — The impersonal verb placet takes two accusative-with-infinitive clauses in parallel as its subjects: Metrodorum... deportari and Philocteten... relegari, signifying a legal decision or consensus.
  2. §48.19.40.prPhilocteten — The accusative singular form of the Greek first-declension noun Philoctetes. It retains the Greek accusative ending -en instead of the typical Latin -am.
  3. §48.19.40.proccultari eum — An accusative-with-infinitive construction acting as the object of the negative participle phrase non ignorans ('not being ignorant', i.e., 'knowing well'). The pronoun eum (referring to Metrodorus) is the subject accusative of the passive infinitive occultari.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.19.40.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.19.40.pr

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