[TRYPHONINUS libro primo disputationum. ] §50.16.225.pr'Fugitiuus' est non is, qui solum consilium fugiendi a domino suscepit, licet id se facturum iactauerit, sed qui ipso facto fugae initium mente deduxerit.
[TRYPHONINUS, in the first book of Disputations.] A 'fugitive' is not one who has merely conceived the intention of fleeing from his master, even though he may have boasted that he would do so, but one who by the very act has carried into effect the beginning of flight with intent.
nam et furem adulterum aleatorem quamquam aliqua significatione ex animi propositione cuiusque sola quis dicere posset, ut etiam is, qui numquam alienam rem inuito domino subtraxerit, numquam alienam matrem familias corruperit, si modo eius mentis sit, ut occasione data id commissurus sit, tamen oportere eadem haec crimina adsumpto actu intellegi.
For although one might, in some sense, speak of a thief, an adulterer, or a gambler solely from each person's mental disposition—so that even a person who has never taken away another's property against the owner's will, and has never corrupted another's mother of a family, might be so called, if only he is of such a mind that he would commit the act if given the opportunity—nevertheless, these same offenses must be understood to require the addition of an act.
et ideo fugitiuum quoque et erronem non secundum propositionem solam, sed cum aliquo actu intellegi constat.
And therefore, it is established that a fugitive also, and a wanderer, are to be understood not according to disposition alone, but with some act.