[CALLISTRATUS libro primo de cognitionibus. ] §50.4.14.pronor municipalis est administratio rei publicae cum dignitatis gradu, siue cum sumptu siue sine erogatione contingens.
[CALLISTRATUS, In the First Book on Cognitions.] A municipal honor is the administration of public affairs with a grade of dignity, occurring either with expense or without expenditure.
§50.4.14.1Munus aut publicum aut priuatum est.
A duty is either public or private.
publicum munus dicitur, quod in administranda re publica cum sumptu sine titulo dignitatis subimus.
A public duty is said to be that which we undergo in administering public affairs with expense, but without a title of dignity.
§50.4.14.2Uiarum munitiones, praediorum collationes non personae, sed locorum munera sunt.
The paving of roads and contributions from estates are not personal duties, but duties of local estates.
§50.4.14.3De honoribus siue muneribus gerendis cum quaeritur, in primis consideranda persona est eius, cui defertur honor siue muneris administratio: item origo natalium: facultates quoque an sufficere iniuncto muneri possint: item lex, secundum quam muneribus quisque fungi debeat.
When there is a question concerning the undertaking of honors or duties, first of all, the person of him to whom the honor or the administration of the duty is offered must be considered; likewise his origin of birth; also whether his means can be sufficient for the imposed duty; likewise the law according to which everyone must perform the duties.
§50.4.14.4Plebeii filii familias periculo eius qui nominauerit tenebuntur, idque imperator noster Seuerus Augustus in haec uerba rescripsit: 'Si in numero plebeiorum filius tuus est, quamquam inuitus honores ex persona filii suscipere cogi non debeas, tamen resistere, quo minus patriae obsequatur periculo eius qui nominauit, iure patriae potestatis non potes'. §50.4.14.5Gerendorum honorum non promiscua facultas est, sed ordo certus huic rei adhibitus est.
Plebeian sons-of-the-family shall be bound at the risk of the person who nominated them, and this our Emperor Severus Augustus replied by rescript in these words: 'If your son is in the number of the plebeians, although you ought not to be compelled against your will to undertake honors on account of your son's person, yet you cannot, by the right of paternal power, resist his obeying his fatherland at the risk of him who nominated him.' The opportunity of undertaking honors is not indiscriminate, but a certain order has been applied to this matter.
nam neque prius maiorem magistratum quisquam, nisi minorem susceperit, gerere potest, neque ab omni aetate, neque continuare quisque honores potest.
For no one can hold a higher magistracy before he has undertaken a lower one, nor can one do so at any age, nor can anyone hold honors continuously.
§50.4.14.6Si alii non sint qui honores gerant, eosdem compellendos, qui gesserint, conplurimis constitutionibus cauetur.
If there are no others to hold honors, it is provided by very many constitutions that the same persons who held them are to be compelled to do so.
diuus etiam Hadrianus de iterandis muneribus rescripsit in haec uerba: 'Illud consentio, ut, si alii non erunt idonei qui hoc munere fungantur, ex his, qui iam functi sunt, creentur'.
The Divine Hadrian also replied by rescript concerning the repetition of duties in these words: 'I agree to this: that, if there are no others suitable to perform this duty, they shall be appointed from among those who have already performed it.'