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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.3.2.pr

Appeals from Legates to the Proconsul regarding Fines

Passage 8496 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage discusses appeals from legates to the proconsul, as well as the proconsul's authority to review and rule on fines imposed by legates.

[UENULEIUS SATURNINUS libro secundo de officio proconsulis. ] §49.3.2.prAppellari a legatis proconsul potest, et, si multam dixerit, potest de iniquitate eius proconsul cognoscere et quod optimum putauerit statuere.
[UENULEIUS SATURNINUS, On the Office of Proconsul, Book 2.] The proconsul can be appealed to from his legates; and, if [a legate] has imposed a fine, the proconsul can investigate its unfairness and decide what he considers best.

Notes

  1. §49.3.2.prdixerit — The subject of the verb is not explicitly expressed, but is understood to refer to one of the legates mentioned in the plural phrase 'a legatis' in the preceding clause. 'Multam dicere' is a legal idiom meaning 'to impose a fine'.
  2. §49.3.2.preius — A genitive of the demonstrative pronoun, which can refer either to the preceding 'multam' (the fine) or to the implied subject of 'dixerit' (the legate). It can be interpreted as 'the unfairness of it (the fine)' or 'his (the legate's) unfairness'; in either case, it refers to the proconsul's review of the justice of the penalty imposed.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §49.3.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:49.3.2.pr

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