[1756] From adscribere, to record the liability of the lord, his coloni came to be called adscripticii. Weber Agrargeschichte p 258.
[1757] Cod Th XI 1 § 26 [399] refers especially to Gaul. He is servus terrae in fact, as Weber Agrargeschichte p 258 remarks.
[1758] In Esmein’s Mélanges [1886] there is an excellent essay on some of the letters of Sidonius discussed here, forestalling a number of my conclusions.
[1759] See Seeck II 175 foll.
[1760] Sidon epist I 10.
[1761] See Dill, Roman Society in the last century of the Western Empire, p 179.
[1762] See epist II 2, 9, 14, IV 24, VIII 4.
[1763] epist VII 12 § 3.
[1764] quia sic habenas Galliarum moderarere ut possessor exhaustus tributario iugo relevaretur.
[1765] Instances in epist III 1, VI 10.