[626] Cic in Catil II § 18.
[627] Cic in Catil II § 20, cf de lege agr II § 78 fundos quorum subsidio familiarum magnitudines sustentare possint.
[628] familiis magnis.
[629] Livy VI 12 § 5, cf VII 25 § 8.
[630] Cairnes The Slave Power ch III. [1862, second edn. 1863.]
[631] Cic de republ III § 16.
[632] But see the oratorical picture of the bad steward, Cic II in Verrem III § 119. That remarkable passage still leaves my questions unanswered, for the comparison with Verres is superficial and only serves a temporary purpose.
[633] Varro I 2 § 17, 17 §§ 5, 7.
[634] Cato 2 § 7, cf Martial XI 70.
[635] As Cato 5 § 2 says, dominus inpune ne Sinat esse.