[606] Liv XXXI 13.
[607] See Rudorff gromatische Institutionen pp 287-8.
[608] Liv XXXIII 42 § 3.
[609] lex agraria, line 31, in Bruns’ fontes or Wordsworth’s Specimens.
[610] Appian civ I 7 § 5. But the account given in this passage of the spread of latifundia and slave-gangs is too loose to be of much value. In particular, the assertion that slave-breeding was already common and lucrative is not to be believed. Appian was misled by the experience of his own day. See Sallust Iug 41 § 8 interea parentes aut parvi liberi militum, uti quisque potentiori confinis erat, sedibus pellebantur.
[611] The urban artisans engaged in the sedentary trades do not concern us here. See Weissenborn on Liv VIII 20 § 4 opificum vulgus et sellularii.
[612] Dionys III 31, IV 9, 13, etc.
[613] Dionys VI 79, a passage much coloured by later notions.
[614] Liv VII 4, 5. A slightly different and shorter version in Cic de off III § 112.
[615] Cic pro Sex Roscio § 46 recognizes this familiarity.