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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.7.1.pr

Penalties and Expulsion for Deserting an Embassy

Passage 8737 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the provision that a municipal envoy who deserts his embassy shall be removed from his order and face an extraordinary penalty.

[ULPIANUS libro octauo ad Massurium Sabinum. ] §50.7.1.prLegatus municipalis si deseruerit legationem, poena adficietur extraordinaria, motus ordine, ut plerumque solet.
[ULPIAN, from the eighth book on Masurius Sabinus.] If a municipal envoy abandons his embassy, he shall be punished with an extraordinary penalty, being removed from his order, as is generally the custom.

Notes

  1. §50.7.1.prdeseruerit — Future perfect indicative, indicating an action completed prior to the future action in the main clause (adficietur).
  2. §50.7.1.prmotus ordine — 'motus' is the perfect passive participle of 'movere' (to remove) agreeing with the subject 'legatus'. 'ordine' is an ablative of separation, referring here to the municipal senate or order (ordo decurionum) from which the person is expelled.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.7.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.7.1.pr

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