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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.12.12.pr-50.12.12.1

Statues on Private Works and Promises to Evade Office

Passage 8794 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the restriction of erecting statues for others in private works, and the ruling that a person who promised a work to avoid public offices should be compelled to take the offices rather than build the work.

[IDEM libro undecimo pandectarum. ] §50.12.12.prIn priuatis operibus inuitis his qui fecerunt statuas aliis ponere non possumus, ut rescripto diui Seueri continetur.
[THE SAME, in the eleventh book of the Pandects.] In private works, we cannot erect statues to others against the will of those who made them, as is contained in a rescript of the Divine Severus.
§50.12.12.1Cum quidam, ne honoribus fungeretur, opus promisisset: honores subire cogendum quam operis instructionem diuus Antoninus rescripsit.
When a certain person had promised a work in order that he might not discharge public offices, the Divine Antoninus replied by rescript that he ought to be compelled to undergo the offices rather than to construct the work.

Notes

  1. 50.12.12.prinuitis his qui fecerunt — An ablative absolute construction formed by the adjective inuitis and the ablative pronoun his. The adjective inuitis ('unwilling') functions with the pronoun (which is the antecedent of qui fecerunt) to express a condition or concession: 'against the will of those who made them.'
  2. 50.12.12.1honores subire cogendum quam operis instructionem — Indirect speech introduced by diuus Antoninus rescripsit. The gerundive cogendum [esse] forms an accusative with infinitive clause where the subject accusative (eum or quendam) is omitted. The word quam here means 'rather than' without an explicit comparative, contrasting the accusative infinitive phrase honores subire with the accusative noun phrase operis instructionem, where a verbal element like [cogendum esse ad] or [cogendum esse] ... [facere] is elliptically understood.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.12.12.pr-50.12.12.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.12.12.pr-50.12.12.1

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