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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.76.pr

Necessity of Certain Knowledge for Acts of Determination

Passage 9136 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage presents the general principle that all actions to be performed by mental determination can only be accomplished through true and certain knowledge.

[IDEM libro uicensimo quarto quaestionum. ] §50.17.76.prIn totum omnia, quae animi destinatione agenda sunt, non nisi uera et certa scientia perfici possunt.
[THE SAME, from his twenty-fourth book of Questions.] In general, all things which are to be done by determination of the mind can be accomplished only by true and certain knowledge.

Notes

  1. §50.17.76.pranimi destinatione — destinatione is the ablative of destinatio (determination, resolution), serving as an ablative of manner or means modifying the gerundive agenda. The genitive animi functions as a subjective genitive, meaning "by the determination of the mind".
  2. §50.17.76.prnon nisi — A restrictive expression combining the negative non and the conditional nisi ("not unless", "only"), which limits the following ablative of means, uera et certa scientia.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.76.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.76.pr

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