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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.22.1.pr

Trajan's Rescript Abolishing Confiscation of Relegated Persons' Goods

Passage 8439 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius quotes a rescript of the deified Trajan, who states that the confiscation of the property of relegated persons, a practice of past avarice, does not suit his clemency and that he has abolished this precedent.

[Pomponius libro quarto ad Sabinum. ] §48.22.1.prCaput ex rescripto diui Traiani ad Didium Secundum: 'Scio relegatorum bona auaritia superiorum temporum fisco uindicata, sed aliud clementiae meae conuenit, qui inter cetera, quibus innocentiam rationum mearum temporum, hoc quoque remisi exemplum'.
[Pomponius, on Sabinus, Book IV.] chapter from the rescript of the deified Trajan to Didius Secundus: 'I know that the goods of those relegated were, by the avarice of former times, confiscated for the treasury, but another course is suitable to my clemency, who, among other measures by which [I have shown] the integrity of the administration of my times, have also remitted this precedent.'

Notes

  1. §48.22.1.prqui — The relative pronoun qui has as its antecedent the first-person singular pronoun (ego, referring to Trajan himself) implied in the possessive adjective meae within clementiae meae. This qui serves as the subject of the first-person singular verb remisi.
  2. §48.22.1.prquibus innocentiam rationum mearum temporum — In the relative clause quibus..., a transitive verb governing the accusative innocentiam (such as probaui or ostendi, meaning 'I proved' or 'I showed') is omitted. rationum here refers to 'administration' or 'conduct of affairs' rather than mere 'accounts', and rationum mearum temporum denotes 'the conduct of my times.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.22.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.22.1.pr

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