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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.22.18.pr-48.22.18.1

Prohibited Areas for Relegated Persons and Effects of Deportation

Passage 8457 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage rules on the prohibition of relegated persons from staying in Rome or places where the emperor resides, and details the immediate loss of status and confiscation of property upon deportation of free persons.

[CALLISTRATUS libro. ] §48.22.18.prRelegatus morari non potest Romae, etsi id sententia comprehensum non est, quia communis patria est: neque in ea ciuitate, in qua moratur princeps uel per quam transit, iis enim solis permissum est principem intueri, qui Romam ingredi possunt, quia princeps pater patriae est.
[CALLISTRATUS, from his Book [without title].] A relegated person cannot stay in Rome, even if this is not included in the sentence, because Rome is the common homeland; nor in that city where the emperor stays or through which he passes, for it is permitted to gaze upon the emperor only to those who can enter Rome, because the emperor is the father of the country.
§48.22.18.1Cum aduersus homines liberos eiusmodi sententia fertur, per quam bona eorum publicantur, qualis est deportationis in insulam, ea ipsa sententia priorem condicionem amittunt et statim poenis sibi irrogatis per eam traduntur, nisi quid cum maiestate coniunctum requirit, ut poena exacerbetur.
When such a sentence is passed against free persons by which their property is confiscated, such as the sentence of deportation to an island, they lose their prior status by that very sentence and are immediately delivered to the punishments imposed on them by it, unless something connected with majesty requires that the punishment be aggravated.

Notes

  1. §48.22.18.prneque in ea ciuitate — The conjunction neque connects back to the opening clause Relegatus morari non potest, implying an ellipsis of neque [relegatus morari potest] in ea ciuitate (neither can a relegated person stay in that city).
  2. §48.22.18.1qualis est deportationis in insulam — The word deportationis is a genitive that modifies and provides an example for the preceding phrase eiusmodi sententia (such a sentence). It is best understood by supplying an omitted noun sententia, i.e., qualis est [sententia] deportationis (such as the sentence of deportation).
  3. §48.22.18.1nisi quid cum maiestate coniunctum requirit — The word quid functions as an indefinite pronoun meaning 'something' (equivalent to aliquid) after the conditional conjunction nisi. The subject of requirit is quid (or quid cum maiestate coniunctum, 'something connected with majesty'), which governs the following ut clause expressing what is required.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.22.18.pr-48.22.18.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.22.18.pr-48.22.18.1

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