Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.4.2.pr

Treason by Overstaying Office, Desertion, and Forgery

Passage 8165 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpianus explains that remaining in a province after a successor is appointed, deserting the army, fleeing to the enemy as a private citizen, and falsifying public records are listed as acts of treason.

[IDEM libro octauo disputationum. ] §48.4.2.prquiue de prouincia, cum ei successum esset, non discessit: aut qui exercitum deseruit uel priuatus ad hostes perfugit: quiue sciens falsum conscripsit uel recitauerit in tabulis publicis: nam et hoc capite primo lege maiestatis enumeratur.

[THE SAME, Disputations, book 8] or who, when a successor had been appointed to him, did not depart from the province; or who deserted the army, or fled to the enemy as a private citizen; or who knowingly wrote or read out a falsehood in the public records; for this also is enumerated in the first chapter of the law of treason.

Notes

§48.4.2.prcum ei successum esset — The impersonal passive successum esset of the intransitive verb succedere (to succeed, follow) is used with the dative ei (to him), meaning 'when a successor had been appointed to him.'
§48.4.2.prpriuatus — The nominative singular masculine adjective is used predicatively (or adverbially) in agreement with the subject of the verb perfugit, meaning 'as a private citizen' or 'in a private capacity.'
§48.4.2.prsciens falsum — The present participle sciens (knowing) functions adverbially to mean 'knowingly' or 'intentionally.' falsum is a substantivized neuter adjective meaning 'a falsehood' or 'what is false,' serving as the direct object of conscripsit and recitauerit.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.4.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.4.2.pr

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