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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.4.17.pr-50.4.17.1

Priesthood of a Province and Costs of a Son's Decurionate

Passage 8714 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is stated that a priesthood of a province may be repeated voluntarily, and that an exempt person who consents to his subject son being elected as a decurion must cover the son's expenses.

[HERMOGENIANUS libro primo iuris epitomarum. ] §50.4.17.prSponte prouinciae sacerdotium iterare nemo prohibetur.
[HERMOGENIANUS, In the First Book of the Epitomes of Law.] No one is prohibited from repeating the priesthood of a province of his own accord.
§50.4.17.1Immunis ab honoribus et muneribus ciuilibus si decurioni creato filio, quem habet in potestate, consentiat, in muneribus et honoribus sumptus subministrare filio compellitur.
A person exempt from municipal honors and duties, if he consents to his son, whom he has under his power, being created a decurion, is compelled to supply the expenses to his son for his duties and honors.

Notes

  1. 50.4.17.1decurioni creato filio — filio is the dative object of the intransitive verb consentio (to consent). decurioni, together with the perfect participle creato, forms a predicative apposition to the noun filio ('to his son created a decurion').
  2. 50.4.17.1Immunis ... compellitur — The subject of the main clause, Immunis (the adjective used substantively, 'a person exempt'), and the main verb compellitur ('is compelled') are separated by the conditional si-clause and the relative clause (quem...). The skeleton of the main clause is 'a person exempt is compelled to supply...'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.4.17.pr-50.4.17.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.4.17.pr-50.4.17.1

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