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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.1.8.pr

Prohibition of Forcing Decurions to Supply Grain Below Market Price

Passage 8651 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the rescript of the deified brothers and other imperial constitutions establishing that decurions should not be forced to supply grain to their citizens at a price lower than the market rate.

[MARCIANUS libro primo de iudiciis publicis. ] §50.1.8.prNon debere cogi decuriones uilius praestare frumentum ciuibus suis, quam annona exigit, diui fratres rescripserunt, et aliis quoque constitutionibus principalibus id cautum est.
[MARCIANUS, On Public Trials, book 1] The deified brothers wrote in a rescript that decurions ought not to be compelled to provide grain to their fellow citizens at a lower price than the market price demands, and this is also provided for by other imperial constitutions.

Notes

  1. §50.1.8.prNon debere cogi decuriones — The subject of the indirect discourse (accusative with infinitive) introduced by rescripserunt ("they wrote in a rescript"). decuriones (accusative, logical subject) is the subject of the passive infinitive cogi ("to be compelled"), which in turn takes the complementary active infinitive praestare ("to provide").
  2. §50.1.8.pruilius... quam annona exigit — uilius is the comparative neuter accusative of uilis ("cheap") used adverbially, meaning "at a lower price". quam introduces the comparison with the clause annona exigit (literally, "than the grain price/market rate demands"), meaning "lower than the market price demands".
  3. §50.1.8.prdiui fratres — Refers to the joint emperors Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Lucius Verus, who ruled together and were deified.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.1.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.1.8.pr

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