[IDEM libro primo responsorum. ] §50.5.8.prIn honoribus delatis neque maior annis septuaginta neque pater numero quinque liberorum excusatur.
[THE SAME, in the first book of Responses.] In the case of offices conferred, neither a person over seventy years of age nor a father of five children is excused.
sed in Asia sacerdotium prouinciae suscipere non coguntur numero liberorum quinque subnixi: quod optimus maximusque princeps noster Seuerus Augustus decreuit ac postea in ceteris prouinciis seruandum esse constituit.
But in Asia, those who rely on the number of five children are not compelled to undertake the provincial priesthood; which our most excellent and greatest Emperor Severus Augustus decreed and afterwards established to be observed in the other provinces.
§50.5.8.1Non alios fisci uectigalium redemptores a muneribus ciuilibus ac tutelis excusari placuit, quam eos, qui praesentes negotium exercerent.
It was decided that no other contractors of the public taxes should be excused from civil duties and guardianships than those who, being present, should carry on the business.
§50.5.8.2Uacationum priuilegia non spectant liberos ueteranorum.
The privileges of exemptions do not apply to the children of veterans.
§50.5.8.3Qui muneris publici uacationem habet, per magistratus ex inprouiso collationes indictas recte recusat: eas uero, quae e lege fiunt, recusare non debet.
He who has an exemption from a public duty rightly refuses the contributions imposed unexpectedly by the magistrates; but he ought not to refuse those which are made according to the law.
§50.5.8.4Philosophis, qui se frequentes atque utiles per eandem studiorum sectam contendentibus praebent, tutelas, item munera sordida corporalia remitti placuit, non ea, quae sumptibus expediuntur: etenim uere philosophantes pecuniam contemnunt, cuius retinendae cupidine fictam adseuerationem detegunt.
It was decided that guardianships, and likewise mean physical duties, should be remitted to philosophers who show themselves active and useful to those striving in the same school of studies, but not those duties which are discharged by expenditures; for indeed, true philosophers despise money, through the desire of retaining which they expose their false pretension.
§50.5.8.5Qui maximos principes appellauit et causam propriam acturus Romam profectus est: quoad cognitio finem accipiat, ab honoribus et ciuilibus muneribus apud suos excusatur.
He who has appealed to the greatest emperors and has set out for Rome to plead his own cause, is excused from offices and civil duties among his fellow-citizens until the investigation receives its end.