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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.2.8.pr

Provision of Maintenance for Impoverished Decurions

Passage 8689 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A provision allowing the decreeing of maintenance for decurions who have lost their wealth, especially if they exhausted it through public generosity to their homeland.

[HERMOGENIANUS libro primo iuris epitomarum. ] §50.2.8.prDecurionibus facultatibus lapsis alimenta decerni permissum est, maxime si ob munificentiam in patriam patrimonium exhauserint.
[HERMOGENIANUS, In the First Book of the Epitome of Law.] It is permitted for maintenance to be decreed for decurions whose resources have failed, especially if they have exhausted their patrimony on account of their munificence toward their homeland.

Notes

  1. 50.2.8.prfacultatibus lapsis — Ablative absolute consisting of the noun `facultates` (means, resources) and `lapsis`, the perfect participle of `labor` (to slip, decline, fail). It means "since their resources have failed" and functions to qualify the preceding dative `Decurionibus`.

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