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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.5.9.pr-50.5.9.1

Exemptions for Teachers and Grain Merchants

Passage 8724 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus' response concerning the exemption of those teaching in Rome from duties in their own homeland, and the extension of grain merchants' privileges to the exemption from public offices.

[PAULUS libro primo responsorum. ] §50.5.9.prEos, qui Romae profitentur, proinde in patria sua excusari muneribus oportere, ac si in patria sua profiterentur. §50.5.9.1Paulus respondit priuilegium frumentariis negotiatoribus concessum etiam ad honores excusandos pertinere.
[PAULUS, in the first book of Responses.] those who profess at Rome ought to be excused from duties in their own homeland, just as if they were professing in their own homeland. replied that the privilege granted to grain merchants also extends to excusing them from public offices.

Notes

  1. §50.5.9.proportere — The infinitive of the impersonal verb oportere ('it is proper/ought'). Within the context of a legal response, it functions in indirect speech (accusative with infinitive) with an implied verb of saying (such as 'respondit'), where 'eos' is the subject accusative.
  2. §50.5.9.1ad honores excusandos — The preposition ad combined with the gerundive excusandos agreeing with the plural noun honores in the accusative. This construction expresses scope or purpose ('to the excusing of offices') and depends on the verb pertinere ('to extend to').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.5.9.pr-50.5.9.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.5.9.pr-50.5.9.1

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