[362] Gibbon, vol. i., p. 497.
[363] Zosimus, book ii., says parents were obliged to sell their children to pay the tax collectors.
[364] Codex Theodosianus, xi., 27, 1–2.
[365] Chapter xx., p. 407, vol. i.
[366] Justinian Code, viii., 52, 2. Quod si exponendam putave it; animadversoni, quæ constituta est, subjacebit.
[367] Bryce, Holy Roman Empire, p. 1. E. A. Freeman, Historical Studies.
[368] Charles Loring Brace, Gesta Christi, p. 111.
[369] W. E. H. Lecky, History of European Morals, vol. ii., p. 27.
[370] Barnabas, Epistle, chapter xix.
[371] Justin, Apol., i., chapter xxvii., p. 30.