Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.221.pr

Meaning of False Tutor and Analogies of Falsity

Passage 9035 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that someone who is not a tutor is truly called a "false tutor," illustrating this with the analogies of a false testament and an unjust measure.

[PAULUS libro decimo responsorum. ] §50.16.221.prPaulus respondit falsum tutorem eum uere dici, qui tutor non est, siue habenti tutor datus est siue non: sicut falsum testamentum, quod testamentum non est, et modius iniquus, qui modius non est.

[PAULUS, in the tenth book of Opinions.] replied that a person who is not a tutor is truly called a "false tutor", whether a tutor has been given to one who already has one, or not; just as that which is not a testament is a "false testament", and that which is not a measure is an "unjust measure".

Notes

50.16.221.prhabenti — Dative singular of the present participle of habere, used substantively to mean "to one who [already] has [a tutor]," functioning as the indirect object of datus est.
50.16.221.prfalsum tutorem eum uere dici, qui tutor non est — An accusative-with-infinitive construction (A.C.I.) depending on respondit, where eum (accusative) is the subject accusative of the passive infinitive dici. The relative clause qui tutor non est qualifies eum.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.221.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.221.pr

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