[781] _Ibid._, L, 17, 32.

[782] Dill, _Nero to M. Aurel._, 117.

[783] _Ibid._, 251-252.

[784] Dill, _Nero to M. Aurel._, 253.

[785] Grupp, _Kulturgesch. der Rom. Kaiserzeit_, I, 312-314.

[786] _Ibid._, 301.

[787] Dill, _Nero to M. Aurel._, 100.

[788] _Ibid._, 102.

[789] Dill, _Nero to M. Aurel._, 105.

[790] _Ibid._, 94.

[791] _Ibid._, 106.

[792] Dill, _Nero to M. Aurel._, 114-116.

[793] _Ibid._, 112.

[794] _Orat._, X, 13; XV, 5.

[795] Dill, _Nero to M. Aurel._, 182.

[796] _Ibid._, 117.

[797] _Digest_, III, tit. 4, 1.

[798] Dill, 265.

[799] _Ibid._, 254, 266, 268.

[800] _Ibid._, 271.

[801] Dill, 282.

[802] _Instit._, I, 8; _Digest_, I, 6, 2.

[803] Wallon, _L'Esclavage_, III, 51 ff.

[804] _Eur. Morals_, II, 65.

[805] Muratori (_Dissert._ XV) thinks that all ecclesiastics were bound not to allow the income of their places to be reduced during their tenancy. This duty set their attitude to slavery.

[806] _Roman Society in the Last Century of Rome_, 161.

[807] _Cod. Theod._, IX, 9.

[808] Bodin, _Republic_, Book I, Chap. V.

[809] Lecky, _Eur. Morals_, II, 64.

[810] _Cod. Theod._, II, 25.

[811] Lecky, _Eur. Morals_, II, 65.

[812] _Sentent._, lib. III, cap. 47.

[813] Marquardt, _Rom. Staatsverwaltung_, II, 233.

[814] _Ibid._, 234.

[815] _Entstehung des Colonats_, 11.

[816] _L'Esclavage_, III, 282.

[817] _Ibid._, 313.

[818] _Ibid._, 308.

[819] Suetonius, _Vespas._, 1.

[820] Jul. Capitol., _M. Aurel._, 22.

[821] Herodianus, II, 4, sec. 12.

[822] _Cod. Just._, XI, LVIII.

[823] Vopisc., _Aurelian_, 48.

[824] Am. Marcel., XXVIII, 5.

[825] Moreau-Christophe, _Le Droit a l'Oisivete_, 274.

[826] Rodbertus, _Hildeb. Ztsft._, II, 241.

[827] _Colonat_, 67.

[828] _Ibid._, 63.

[829] _Hildeb. Ztsft._, 206.

[830] _Colonat_, 143.