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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.9.2.pr

Punishment for Failure to Report Parricide and the Physician

Passage 8258 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Illustrates a case where the brother who knew of the plot to poison the father but did not inform him was relegated, while the physician involved was punished with death.

[SCAEUOLA libro quarto regularum. ] §48.9.2.prFrater autem eius, qui cognouerat tantum nec patri indicauerat, relegatus est et medicus supplicio affectus.
[SCAEVOLA, Rules, Book 4] But his brother, who had merely known of the matter and had not informed the father, was relegated, and the physician was punished with death.

Notes

  1. §48.9.2.preius — This genitive pronoun refers to the person mentioned at the end of the preceding section (§48.9.1.pr), "anyone who buys poison to give to his father (qui emit uenenum ut patri daret)".
  2. §48.9.2.prcognouerat tantum — The direct object of the transitive verb cognouerat (pluperfect) is omitted, but contextually refers to the plot or the purchase of the poison. tantum functions as an adverb meaning "merely" or "only", modifying cognouerat.
  3. §48.9.2.prsupplicio affectus — The auxiliary verb est is omitted after affectus. The phrase supplicio affici is an idiom in legal and classical Latin prose meaning "to be punished with death" (capital punishment), rather than a general penalty.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.9.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.9.2.pr

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