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for it as any , namely , in my account of this Oration . If , therefore , you please to give any hints for it , or to compose a note explaining that matter , 'twill be very kind . I have not consulted the references of Gothofred to the Theodosian Code , nor to all his authors which I have put down in the notes . The reason is , because I have not leisure enough at present . But I intend to do it hereafter . I don't therefore desire you to give yourself any concern about that ; I shall take sufficient care of it in due time . I submit the whole to your censure and judgment , and shall be obliged to you for any corrections or additional observations . I only am afraid of giving you too much trouble . There is no haste at all in the affair , beside the care we should take perhaps not to keep Libanius too long . I may desire to see
Libanius once more , after you have revised my translation . But then I will fceep it but a day or two . I am , Sir , Your affectionate friend , and obliged , humble servant , N . Lardner Howton Square Jan . 16 , 1733-4 . In the margin , at several places , is put a Q for Quaere , where I doubt about the justness of my translation . To Mr . Ward .
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Original Letter of Dr . Ward's . 97
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No . 4 . Deab Sir , < In one of the notes which you favoured me with , you say , that " Roman masters had the power of life and death over their slaves , till the time of Antoninus Pius , who by his Constitution in some measure restrained it . " But Spartian * says , that Adrian took away that power over servants . " Servos a Dominis occidi vetuit , et jussit , daranari per judices , si digni essent . " Spurt * Adrian Cars . Cap . 18 , p . 169 .+ And in the margin is a note of Casaubon . Caius Institution , Tit . iii . st Si servus dignum morte crimen admiserit , iis judicibus , quibus publici officii potestas commissa est , tradendus est , ut pro suo crimine puniatur . " But what affects me most is what Spartian says of Adrian , because lie was before Antoninus Pinsy and therefore seems to contradict what you say of that power subsisting till Antoninus . I must therefore entreat the favour of some elucidation from you relating to this difficulty . A line or two by penny post will oblige Your humble servant , N . Lardner . April 2 , 17504 For Mr . J . Ward , at Gresham College .
* ^ Elius Spartianus , one of the " Six Writers of the Augustan History . " See Lardner ' s Works , V 1 IL 248 . t Quoted , Ibid . IV . 338 . I The Credibility , Pt . 11 . Vol . VIII ., ( Lardner ' s Works , IV . 187 , } in which the subject of this letter occurs , was first published in 1750 .
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No . 5 . Rev . Sir , I cannot at present exactly remember in what manner I expressed the note you had from me relating to the power which by the Roman laws was granted to masters over tneir slaves ; as those notes were written in some haste , to comply with your time . But so far as I can recollect , I ascribed the time when the power of life and death was entirely taken out of their hands
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/25/
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