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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.18.4.pr-49.18.4.1

Veterans' Road Obligations and Ship Requisition

Passage 8642 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It presents imperial rescripts showing that veterans are not exempt from road-building duties or taxes levied on their properties, and that their ships may be requisitioned.

[ULPIANUS libro quarto de officio proconsulis. ] §49.18.4.prUiae sternendae immunitatem ueteranos non habere Iulio Sossiano ueterano rescriptum est. nam nec ab intributionibus, quae possessionibus fiunt, ueteranos esse excusatos palam est.
[ULPIAN on the Office of Proconsul, book 4] It was replied by rescript to the veteran Julius Sossianus that veterans do not have exemption from road-building; for it is also clear that veterans are not excused from the impositions made on possessions.
§49.18.4.1Sed et naues eorum angariari posse Aelio Firmo et Antonino Claro ueteranis rescriptum est.
But it was also replied by rescript to the veterans Aelius Firmus and Antoninus Clarus that their ships can be requisitioned.

Notes

  1. §49.18.4.pruiae sternendae — A gerundive construction in the genitive case, modifying immunitatem as an objective genitive, where the gerundive of sternere agrees with the noun uiae (feminine genitive singular).
  2. §49.18.4.prpossessionibus — Dative plural of possessio, where the phrase quae possessionibus fiunt means "which are imposed on [lit. done to] possessions," referring to taxes or duties levied on real property.
  3. §49.18.4.1angariari — Present passive infinitive of the late Latin verb angariare (to requisition or press into public service), derived from the Greek loanword ἀγγαρεύειν. It functions with the accusative subject naues eorum in an AcI clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §49.18.4.pr-49.18.4.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:49.18.4.pr-49.18.4.1

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