[ULPIANUS libro quarto ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §50.16.135.prQuaeret aliquis si portentosum uel monstrosum uel debilem mulier ediderit uel qualem uisu uel uagitu nouum, non humanae figurae, sed alterius, magis animalis quam hominis, partum, an, quia enixa est, prodesse ei debeat? et magis est, ut haec quoque parentibus prosint: nec enim est quod eis imputetur, quae qualiter potuerunt, statutis obtemperauerunt, neque id quod fataliter accessit, matri damnum iniungere debet.
[ULPIANUS, from the fourth book on the Lex Iulia et Papia.] Someone might ask whether, if a woman has given birth to a portentous or monstrous or deformed child, or one that is strange in appearance or cry, not of human form but of another, more like an animal than a human, this ought to benefit her because she has given birth. And it is more correct that these also should benefit the parents: for there is no reason why it should be imputed to them, since they, in the way they were able, complied with the statutes, nor should that which happened by fate inflict a loss upon the mother.