[1156] si debitor populo in duplum praediis cavisset. The precedent of Augustus is mentioned in Sueton Aug 41.
[1157] See Cicero in Catil II § 18.
[1158] See the case of Sittius in Cic pro Sulla §§ 56-9. Such financial opportunities were evidently few in the later Empire.
[1159] trepidique patres (neque enim quisquam tali culpa vacuus) ... etc.
[1160] Germ 26.
[1161] See Schweitzer-Sidler’s notes, and cf the remarks of Caesar BG IV 1, VI 22.
[1162] See Pliny NH XVIII 259 and Conington’s notes on Verg G I 71-83. Varro I 44 § 3.
[1163] Germ 24.
[1164] servos condicionis huius per commercia tradunt, ut se quoque pudore victoriae exsolvant.
[1165] Germ 25 frumenti modum dominus aut pecoris aut vestis ut colono iniungit, et servus hactenus paret. The colonus here is clearly a tenant, his German analogue a serf.