[1386] Frontin gromat p 53.
[1387] non exiguum populum plebeium.
[1388] legere tironem ex vico.
[1389] This evidence has come to hand since Heisterbergk wrote (1876) Die Entstehung des Colonats.
[1390] op cit pp 116-8.
[1391] Dion Cass epit LXXVI 10. For this story Dion is a contemporary witness.
[1392] The special treatises on these documents are fully mentioned in Girard’s Textes de droit Romain, ed 4, 1913. An essay on the Colons du saltus Burunitanus in Esmein’s Mélanges (1886) is still of great value.
[1393] Text in Girard’s Textes de droit Romain part III chapter 6.
[1394] We seem to have the names of two former owners, Varianus and Mancia. For the retention of names of former owners see Dittenberger in Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae No 669 note 18. Rostowzew Gesch des Röm colonates ch 4 rejects this view and makes the lex Manciana an imperial law.
[1395] Pliny epist III 19 § 7. Digest XIX 2 § 19², XXXII § 91¹, XXXIII 7 passim.