[1857] p. 385.
[1858] “Ob laetitiam aliquam vel honorem domus divinae vel ex aliqua causa, ex qua senatus censuit abolitionem reorum fieri” (Ulp. in Dig. 48, 16, 12; cf. 48, 3, 2, 1). Domitian by an edict declared that such abolitiones did not extend to slaves who were in custody awaiting trial (Dig. 48, 16, 16; cf. 48, 3, 2, 1).
[1859] p. 249.
[1860] Ulp. in Dig. 3, 1, 1, 10 “De qua autem restitutione praetor loquitur? Utrum de ea quae a principe vel a senatu? Pomponius quaerit: et putat de ea restitutione sensum, quam princeps vel senatus indulsit.”
[1861] It is said of Claudius (Suet. Claud. 12) “neminem exulum nisi ex senatus auctoritate restituit”; and of Antoninus Pius (Vita 6) “His quos Hadrianus damnaverat in senatu indulgentias petit, dicens etiam ipsum Hadrianum hoc fuisse facturum.”
[1862] Such acts are mentioned under Claudius (Dio Cass. lx. 4), Otho (Tac. Hist. i. 90; Plut. Otho 1), Vitellius (Tac. Hist. ii. 92), Vespasian (Dio Cass. lxvi. 9), Nerva (Plin. Ep. iv. 9, 2), Antoninus Caracalla (Vita 3), and Gordian (Herodian vii. 6, 4).
[1863] Tac. Ann. ii. 50 “(Tiberius) liberavit ... Appuleiam lege majestatis, adulterii graviorem poenam deprecatus.”
[1864] p. 390.
[1865] Gordian is spoken of as παλινδικίαν διδοὺς τοῦς ἀδίκως κατακριθεῖσι (Herodian vii. 6, 4).
[1866] Ulp. in Dig. 3, 1, 1, 10.