[567] Marquardt Privatleben pp. 135 sq.
[568] Appian B.C. i. 8.
[569] Gaius in Dig. 50, 17, 133 “melior condicio nostra per servos fieri potest, deterior fieri non potest.”
[570] Gaius iv. 69-74; Justin. Inst. iv. 7.
[571] Cic. Part. Orat. 34, 118; pro Cluent. 63, etc. As, however, the master’s consent had to be obtained, the evidence and torture of slaves in the public courts were rare. In domestic jurisdiction the inquisition on slaves was held before a family consilium.
[572] Gaius iii. 210, 217, 222, 223.
[573] Cato R.R. 5; Dionys. vii. 69.
[574] Cic. ad Fam. iv. 12; Tac. Ann. xiv. 42.
[575] Liv. xliii. 16; Gell. xiii. 13. For servi publici in the municipal towns see Lex Coloniae Genetivae c. 62.
[576] Actor publicus, in Rome (Tac. Ann. ii 30); in the municipal towns (Plin. Ep. vii, 18, 2).