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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.2.pr-50.16.2.1

Definitions of City Boundaries and Part of the Day

Passage 8816 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains the geographical definitions distinguishing 'urbs' (city) and 'Rome', and defines the legal meaning of 'the greater part of any day'.

[PAULUS libro primo ad edictum. ] §50.16.2.prUrbis' appellatio muris, 'Romae' autem continentibus aedificiis finitur, quod latius patet.
[Paulus, in the first book on the Edict.] The designation 'urbs' is bounded by its walls, but 'Roma' is bounded by the continuous buildings, which extends more widely.
' §50.16.2.1Cuiusque diei maior pars' est horarum septem primarum diei, non supremarum.
'The greater part of any day' consists of the first seven hours of the day, not the last.

Notes

  1. §50.16.2.prquod latius patet — The relative pronoun 'quod' refers to the preceding clause or the scope of 'Roma' as defined by continuous buildings, indicating that it extends more widely than the scope of 'urbs' (confined by walls).
  2. §50.16.2.1maior pars — The reason why 'the greater part' refers to 'the first seven hours' is that in Roman law, the daytime was divided into twelve hours, and thus the majority (over half) corresponds to seven hours.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.2.pr-50.16.2.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.2.pr-50.16.2.1

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