[163] Ibid., IX, xliv; Institut., i, 8. On proof the master could be compelled to sell the slave on the chance of his acquiring more congenial service, but the privilege was often abused.
[164] Ibid., XV, vii, 12.
[165] Ibid., XV, i, 52.
[166] Ibid., 53; Vitruvius, v, 11, etc.
[167] Cod., VIII, x, 12. A Greek Constitution of Zeno of considerable length, and uniquely instructive on some points. These οἰκήματα were limited to six feet of length and seven of height.
[168] Novel cxxxvi; Plato, Apol., 17, etc.
[169] Whence called emboliariae (ἰμβολος being Byzantine for portico). So say Alemannus ad Procop. (Hist. Arcan., p. 381) and his copyist Byzantios (op. cit., i, p. 113), but Pliny seems to use the word for an actress in interludes (H. N., vii, 49), an occupation not, however, very different.
[170] Theophanes, Cont., p. 417. In the severe winter of 933, Romanus Lecapenus blocked the interspaces and fitted them with windows and doors.
[171] They are, in fact, called the “narrows” in the Greek στενωποί.
[172] Παρακύπτικος, Cod., loc. cit.