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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.2.6.pr

Summary Trial of Minor Offenses and Proconsular Punishments

Passage 8133 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This fragment outlines the proconsul's duty to hear minor charges summarily and to issue appropriate decisions, whether acquittal, beating with cudgels, or flogging for slaves.

[IDEM libro secundo de officio proconsulis. ] §48.2.6.prLeuia crimina audire et discutere de plano proconsulem oportet et uel liberare eos, quibus obiciuntur, uel fustibus castigare uel flagellis seruos uerberare.
[THE SAME, on the Office of Proconsul, Book 2] The proconsul ought to hear and examine minor charges summarily, and either to acquit those against whom they are alleged, or to chastise them with cudgels, or to flog slaves with whips.

Notes

  1. §48.2.6.prproconsulem oportet — The impersonal verb oportet governs an accusative and infinitive construction, with the accusative proconsulem acting as the subject of the series of infinitives: audire, discutere, liberare, castigare, and uerberare.
  2. §48.2.6.prde plano — A legal idiom meaning literally "on level ground." It refers to actions taken "summarily" or "informally" without ascending the judicial tribunal or holding a formal court session.
  3. §48.2.6.prquibus obiciuntur — The subject of the passive verb obiciuntur is the preceding leuia crimina. The relative pronoun quibus is a dative of reference or disadvantage ("against whom the charges are alleged"), referring back to eos.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.2.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.2.6.pr

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