Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §8.3.16.pr

Prohibition of Catching Birds on Land Against the Owner's Will

Passage 1425 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A rescript of the Divine Pius to bird-catchers, stating that it is unreasonable for them to catch birds on other people's land against the owners' will.

[CALLISTRATUS libro tertio de cognitionibus. ] §8.3.16.prDiuus Pius aucupibus ita rescripsit: οὐκ ἔστιν εὔλογον ἀκόντων τῶν Δεσποτῶν ‘υμᾶς ἐν ἀλλοτρίοις χωρίοις ἰξεύειν.

[CALLISTRATUS, On Extraordinary Proceedings, Book 3] The Divine Pius wrote in a rescript to bird-catchers as follows: "It is not reasonable that you should hunt with birdlime on other people's lands against the will of the owners."

Notes

8.3.16.prἀκόντων τῶν Δεσποτῶν — A genitive absolute construction consisting of the noun δεσπότης (owner) and the adjective ἄκων (unwilling), meaning 'against the will of the owners' or 'without the owners' consent'.
8.3.16.pr‘υμᾶς ἐν ἀλλοτρίοις χωρίοις ἰξεύειν — An accusative-with-infinitive clause where the accusative pronoun ὑμᾶς (you; 'υμᾶς in the text is a breath marking error) is the subject of the infinitive ἰξεύειν (to hunt with birdlime). This entire clause functions as the subject of the impersonal phrase οὐκ ἔστιν εὔλογον.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §8.3.16.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:8.3.16.pr

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