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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.5.5.pr

No Exemption from the Decurionate by Another Honor

Passage 8720 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian responds that no exemption from the decurionate should be granted for the sake of another honor, since the decurionate itself is also an honor.

[MACER libro secundo de officio praesidis. ] §50.5.5.prA decurionatu, quamuis hic quoque honor est, ad alium honorem nullam uacationem tribuendam Ulpianus respondit.
[By MACER, in the second book on the Office of the Governor.] Ulpian responded that no exemption from the decurionate, although this too is an honor, should be granted for another honor.

Notes

  1. §50.5.5.prtribuendam — A gerundive expressing passive necessity or obligation in an accusative-with-infinitive construction introduced by `respondit`, with `esse` omitted (`tribuendam [esse]`). Its subject is the accusative `nullam uacationem`.
  2. §50.5.5.prquamuis hic quoque honor est — While the conjunction `quamuis` (although) typically governs the subjunctive mood in classical Latin, it here takes the indicative `est`. This is a common syntax in post-Augustan and juristic Latin prose.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.5.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.5.5.pr

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