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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.18.3.pr

Exemption of Veterans and Their Children from Harsh Penalties

Passage 8641 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is prescribed that veterans and their children enjoy the same privileges as decurions, being exempt from labor in the mines, public works, being thrown to the beasts, and corporal punishment by clubs.

[MARCIANUS libro secundo regularum. ] §49.18.3.prUeteranis et liberis ueteranorum idem honor habetur, qui et decurionibus: igitur nec in metallum damnabuntur nec in opus publicum uel ad bestias, nec fustibus caeduntur.
[MARCIAN in his second book of Rules.] Veterans and the children of veterans are accorded the same honor as decurions; therefore, they shall neither be sentenced to the mines, nor to public works, nor to the beasts, nor are they beaten with clubs.

Notes

  1. §49.18.3.pridem honor ... qui et decurionibus — The construction of 'idem... qui' expresses 'the same... as'. The noun 'decurionibus' is a dative of indirect object corresponding to 'veteranis...' in the main clause, and 'et' functions adverbially as 'also/even'.
  2. §49.18.3.prdamnabuntur ... caeduntur — While 'damnabuntur' is future (third-person plural) and 'caeduntur' is present (third-person plural), both function to prescribe a permanent rule of exemption from punishments for veterans.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §49.18.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:49.18.3.pr

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