This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1752 Excerpt: ...of the beasts. Cato the elder, so much celebrated by the Romans, was a bad master to his slaves and is justly censured on that account by 5 Plutarch. By the Roman laws a slave could not bear testimony without undergoing the rack. By the same laws, if a man was killed in his own house, all his domestic slaves were put' ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1752 Excerpt: ...of the beasts. Cato the elder, so much celebrated by the Romans, was a bad master to his slaves and is justly censured on that account by 5 Plutarch. By the Roman laws a slave could not bear testimony without undergoing the rack. By the same laws, if a man was killed in his own house, all his domestic slaves were put' to death, though their innocence were ever so evident. t Credo, imo scio, nullum belliun tantam cladem vastitatemque generi humano intulisse, quam hos ad voluptatem ludos. Mentior, si non unus aliquis mensis Europse stetit vicenis capitum millibus aut trecenis. Lipjius Saturn. I. 12. i Cod. L. XI. Tit. XLni. 'See how it is described by Pignorius De Servis. Vit. Caton. 'Tacitu, AnnaL XIV. 42. Digest. L. XXIX. Tit. V. I. XXXV. Tit. XI. L 2 The 'The Romans, who kept a multitude of servants, often neglected them most inhumanly when they were lick, turned them out of doors, and sent them to the Island in the Tiber, where they left them to be cured by the God AEsculapius, who had a temple there. The Emperor u Claudius decreed that the slaves thus turned out should have their liberty if they recovered: and because some masters were so cruel that they killed them when they were sick, he ordered that they who did so should be punished as murderers. w Adrian wisely took away the power of life and death, which masters exercised over them. Seneca 1 hath pleaded the cause of these unhappy persons with great strength of reason and beauty of expression, and talks like a philosopher and a Christian. v Plato hath not treated the subject so well, but - Suetonius Claud. 25. Die LX. p. 685. Cod. L. VII. Tit. VI.... w Adrian-in Hist. Aug. Script. C. 18. p. 169. x Servi sunt? imo homines. Servi sunt I imo contubern.les. Servi sunt? imo humiles amici. Servi..
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