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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.7.13.pr

Envoys Purchasing Houses in Their Home City

Passage 8749 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the question of whether an envoy who purchased a house in his home city before completing his embassy violated the senatorial decree prohibiting envoys from engaging in private business, Scaevola answers that he is not held liable.

[SCAEUOLA libro primo digestorum. ] §50.7.13.prLegatus creatus a patria sua suscepta legatione in urbem Romam uenit et nondum perfecta legatione domum, quae erat in ipsius ciuitate Nicopoli, emit.
[SCAEUOLA, from the first book of the Digests.] An envoy appointed by his native city, having undertaken the embassy, came to the city of Rome, and, while the embassy was not yet completed, bought a house which was in his own city of Nicopolis.
quaesitum est, an in senatus consultum inciderit, quo prohibentur legati ante perfectam legationem negotiis uel priuatis rebus obstringi.
The question was raised whether he fell under the decree of the senate by which envoys are prohibited from being bound by business or private affairs before the embassy is completed.
respondit non uideri teneri.
He answered that he did not seem to be held liable.

Notes

  1. §50.7.13.prnondum perfecta legatione — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun legatione and the perfect passive participle perfecta with the adverb nondum. It expresses a temporal or concessive background ("although the embassy was not yet completed").
  2. §50.7.13.prnon uideri teneri — An accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction introduced by the main verb respondit, with the subject accusative (eum or legatum) omitted. The passive infinitive uideri ("to seem, to be deemed") takes another passive infinitive teneri ("to be bound, to be held liable") as its complement.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.7.13.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.7.13.pr

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