ABSTRACT
Not a great deal has been published concerning physical or mental disability in the Roman Digest. What has been tends to focus on mental disability. It is possible that the Digest contains more on the subject of disability, in the broadest of senses, than most ancient works, even the literary and the medical. I have, therefore, attempted to provide a sampling of some of what seem to me to be the more intriguing passages within the Digest on this subject. What emerges is a vivid picture of how the Roman legal system may have understood and adjudicated some of the societal problems relating to disability.
