Book 4
2
I must not omit to say that this also is stated in the works of the early jurists, Cael. Sab. ad. ed. fr. 1 ff., Bremer. that the difference between a disease and a defect is that the latter is lasting, while the former comes and goes. But if this be so, contrary to the opinion of Labeo, which I quoted above, neither a blind man nor a eunuch is diseased.
2
I have added a passage from the second book of Masurius Sabinus On Civil Law.: Fr. . 5 Huschke; 173 ff., Bremer. A madman or a mute, or one who has a broken or crippled limb, or any defect which impairs his usefulness, is diseased. But one who is by nature near-sighted is as sound as one who runs more slowly than others.
3
That before the divorce of Carvilius there were no lawsuits about a wife's dowry in the city of Rome; further, the proper meaning of the word paelex and its derivation.
