[552] Tholuit, or Tholum, in some MSS., but no doubt the same as the Tulum of Letters [9] and [10].
[553] 'Ubi et si quid esset quolibet casu, qualibet inquisitione fortassis ambiguum, hujus auctoritatis nostrae judicio constat explosum.'
[554] 'Florentino viro devoto Comitiaco.'
[555] 'Quoticus ego Conigastum in inbecillis cujusque fortunas impetum facientem obvius excepi!'
[556] 'Cum suo peculio.' If they were not slaves they could not have peculium in the technical sense. I therefore understand 'peculio' to be simply equivalent to cattle, a sense which is confirmed by 'Calabri peculiosi' in [Letter 33].
[557] 'Adjicientes ne rerum suarum repetitionibus imminerent [? imminuerent] liberis sibi conditionem ultimae servitutis imponi.' Cf. Salvian, De Gubernatione Dei v. 8, 9, for a description of similar occurrences in Gaul.
[558] 'Honoratis Possessoribus.'
[559] 'Antiqui operis formam.'
[560] 'Quatenus antiquos cuniculos, sive subterraneos, sive qui junguntur marginibus platearum diligenter emendent.'
[561] 'Coloni sunt qui agros jugiter colunt.'