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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.6.7.pr

List of Military Roles Exempt from Heavy Fatigue Duties

Passage 8736 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A detailed list of specific military roles and crafts that grant soldiers the status of "immunes," exempting them from heavier fatigue duties.

[TARRUNTENUS PATERNUS libro primo militarium. ] §50.6.7.prQuibusdam aliquam uacationem munerum grauiorum condicio tribuit, ut sunt mensores, optio ualetudinarii, medici, capsarii, et artifices et qui fossam faciunt, ueterinarii, architectus, gubernatores, naupegi, ballistrarii, specularii, fabri, sagittarii, aerarii, bucularum structores, carpentarii, scandularii, gladiatores, aquilices, tubarii, cornuarii, arcuarii, plumbarii, ferrarii, lapidarii, et hi qui calcem cocunt, et qui siluam infindunt, qui carbonem caedunt ac torrent.
[TARRUNTENUS PATERNUS, from the first book on Military Matters.] To certain persons, their status grants some exemption from the heavier duties, such as surveyors, orderlies of the hospital, physicians, bandage-bearers, and artisans, those who dig ditches, veterinarians, the architect, helmsmen, shipbuilders, artillerymen, window-makers, smiths, archers, coppersmiths, makers of cheek-pieces, carriage-makers, shinglers, swordsmiths, water-finders, trumpeters, horn-blowers, bow-makers, plumbers, blacksmiths, stonemasons, and those who burn lime, those who split wood, and those who cut and char coal.
in eodem numero haberi solent lani, uenatores, uictimarii, et optio fabricae, et qui aegris praesto sunt, librarii quoque qui docere possint, et horreorum librarii, et librarii depositorum, et librarii caducorum, et adiutores corniculariorum, et stratores, et polliones, et custodes armorum, et praeco, et bucinator.
In the same class are usually held butchers, hunters, sacrificial assistants, and the orderly of the workshop, those who attend to the sick, clerks also who are able to teach, granary clerks, clerks of deposits, clerks of lapsed properties, assistants to the chief clerks (cornicularii), grooms (stratores), polishers, keepers of arms, the herald, and the bucina-blower.
hi igitur omnes inter immunes habentur.
Therefore, all these are held among the exempt (immunes).

Notes

  1. §50.6.7.prcondicio — 'Status' or 'condition'. Here it refers to the specialized military assignment or role assigned to the soldier, which serves as the subject of the verb 'tribuit' granting exemption from heavier fatigue duties.
  2. §50.6.7.prlibrarii caducorum — 'Clerks of lapsed properties'. While 'caduca' generally refers to lapsed inheritances under Roman civil law, in a military context it may refer to the administration of the estates of soldiers who died without heirs, or records of casualties (from 'caduci', the fallen).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.6.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.6.7.pr

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