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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.154.pr

Measuring a Mile from Continuous Buildings

Passage 8968 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Macer states that the measurement of a thousand paces (one mile) must start not from the city's milestone but from the continuous buildings.

[MACER libro primo ad legem uicensimam. ] §50.16.154.prMille passus non a miliario urbis, sed a continentibus aedificiis numerandi sunt.
[MACER, in the first book on the law of the twentieth.] A thousand paces are to be measured not from the milestone of the city, but from the continuous buildings.

Notes

  1. §50.16.154.prmille passus — Here 'mille' acts as an adjective modifying 'passus' (nominative plural of the fourth declension), which functions as a plural subject, as indicated by the plural verb 'numerandi sunt'.
  2. §50.16.154.prcontinentibus aedificiis — Ablative governed by the preposition 'a'. 'continentibus' is the present participle of 'contineo' (to hold together, border on) used adjectivally to mean 'continuous' or 'connected', modifying 'aedificiis'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.154.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.154.pr

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