[ULPIANUS libro secundo ad edictum. ] §50.1.1.prMunicipem aut natiuitas facit aut manumissio aut adoptio.
[ULPIANUS on the Edict, book 2] Either birth, manumission, or adoption makes a citizen of a municipality.
§50.1.1.1Et proprie quidem municipes appellantur muneris participes, recepti in ciuitatem, ut munera nobiscum facerent: sed nunc abusiue municipes dicimus suae cuiusque ciuitatis ciues, ut puta Campanos, Puteolanos.
And indeed, strictly speaking, those are called "municipes" who are sharers of a duty (muneris participes), received into the citizenship so that they might perform duties with us; but now by a catachresis we call the citizens of each one's own city "municipes", as for example the Campanians and Puteolans.
§50.1.1.2Qui ex duobus igitur Campanis parentibus natus est, Campanus est.
Therefore, he who is born of two Campanian parents is a Campanian.
sed si ex patre Campano, matre Puteolana, aeque municeps Campanus est, nisi forte priuilegio aliquo materna origo censeatur: tunc enim maternae originis erit municeps.
But if he is born of a Campanian father and a Puteolan mother, he is equally a Campanian citizen, unless by some chance, through some privilege, the maternal origin is reckoned; for then he will be a citizen of his maternal origin.
ut puta Iliensibus concessum est, ut qui matre Iliensi est, sit eorum municeps.
As, for example, it has been granted to the Ilians, that he who is of an Ilian mother should be their citizen.
etiam Delphis hoc idem tributum et conseruatum est.
This same right has also been granted and preserved to the Delphians.
Celsus etiam refert Ponticis ex beneficio Pompeii Magni competere, ut qui Pontica matre natus esset, Ponticus esset.
Celsus also reports that, by a benefit of Pompey the Great, it belongs to the Pontics that he who was born of a Pontic mother should be a Pontic.
quod beneficium ad uolgo quaesitos solos pertinere quidam putant.
Some think that this benefit applies only to those born out of wedlock.
quorum sententiam Celsus non probat: neque enim debuisse caueri, ut uolgo quaesitus matris condicionem sequeretur (quam enim aliam originem hic habet?): sed ad eos, qui ex diuersarum ciuitatium parentibus orerentur.
Celsus does not approve of their opinion; for there was no need to provide that one born out of wedlock should follow the condition of his mother (for what other origin does such a person have?), but it applies to those who are born of parents from different cities.