[1186] Hermes XIX pp 393-416.
[1187] Plin epist VII 18.
[1188] Mommsen op cit p 410. See index under [instrumentum].
[1189] Whether we have in Columella a direct reference to this method is a question I have discussed in the chapter on [that author]. However answered, it does not affect the present passage. See the chapter on [the African inscriptions].
[1190] See the case cited in the chapter on [Pliny the younger].
[1191] By H Blümner in Müller’s Handbuch ed 3, IV ii 2 p 544.
[1192] Mommsen op cit p 416. See the chapter on [evidence from the Digest].
[1193] Mommsen op cit p 412.
[1194] Digest XXXIII 7 § 20¹ non fide dominica sed mercede. ibid § 12³ qui quasi colonus in agro erat.
[1195] Dig XXXIII 7 § 20³ praedia ut instructa sunt cum dotibus et reliquis colonorum et vilicorum et mancipiis et pecore omni legavit et peculiis et cum actore. Cf also XL 7 § 40⁵.