[1746] pervasio = attack, encroachment. Cf cod Th II 4 §§ 5, 6.
[1747] fundos maiorum expetunt et coloni divitum fiunt.
[1748] iugo se inquilinae abiectionis addicunt. See cod Th V 18 (10) de inquilinis et colonis, cod Just XI 48 § 13.
[1749] fiunt praeiudicio habitationis indigenae. That is, by prescription they acquire a new origo. See cod Th V 17 (9) §§ 1, 2, 18 (10), cod Just XI 64 § 2, 48 § 16.
[1750] extraneos et alienos; that is, belonging to someone else.
[1751] et miramur si nos barbari capiunt, cum fratres nostros faciamus esse captivos?
[1752] I think de Coulanges is too severe on the rhetoric of Salvian (pp 141-3). After all, the Codes do not give one a favourable picture of the later colonate, and the Empire did fall in the West.
[1753] This arrangement was especially frequent in the East. See on Libanius [pp 400-1], and cod Th XI 24 de patrociniis vicorum, cf cod Just XI 54. But so far as individuals were concerned it was widespread.
[1754] Seeck cites cod Th III 1 § 2 [337], XI 1 § 26 [399], 3 §§ 1-5 [319-391], and for the legal tricks used to defeat the rule XI 3 § 3.
[1755] de gub Dei V § 18 quae enim sunt non modo urbes sed etiam municipia atque vici ubi non quot curiales fuerint tot tyranni sunt?