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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.5.3.pr

Exemption from Duties for Grain Shippers and Senatorial Exclusion

Passage 8718 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It provisions the exemption from public duties for those who build and employ seagoing ships of a certain capacity for the Roman grain supply, while excluding senators from this exemption due to the prohibition on their owning ships.

[SCAEUOLA libro tertio regularum. ] §50.5.3.prHis, qui naues marinas fabricauerunt et ad annonam populi Romani praefuerint non minores quinquaginta milium modiorum aut plures singulas non minores decem milium modiorum, donec hae naues nauigant aut aliae in earum locum, muneris publici uacatio praestatur ob nauem.
[By SCAEVOLA, in the third book of Rules.] To those who have built seagoing ships of not less than fifty thousand modii, or several ships of not less than ten thousand modii each, and have employed them for the grain supply of the Roman people, an exemption from public duties is granted on account of the ship, as long as these ships or others in their place are sailing.
senatores autem hanc uacationem habere non possunt, quod nec habere illis nauem ex lege Iulia repetundarum licet.
Senators, however, cannot have this exemption, because they are not even allowed to own a ship under the Julian law on extortion.

Notes

  1. §50.5.3.prHis — The dative His at the beginning of the sentence, accompanied by the relative clause qui..., functions as the dative complement of the passive verb praestatur (is granted) in the main clause. The subject of the main clause is uacatio (exemption).
  2. §50.5.3.prnon minores — The feminine plural accusative of the adjective minor, modifying the preceding noun naues marinas (seagoing ships) in the relative clause. It means ships 'not smaller than' (i.e., of at least) fifty thousand modii.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.5.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.5.3.pr

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