Footnotes
[61]
"A great many sold their children to pay their debts." --
Plutarch, "Life of Solon."
[63]
It appears from history that this custom was established among
the Romans before the Law of the Twelve Tables. — Livy, dec. 1, ii. 23,
24.
[64]
Dionysius Halicarnassus. "Roman Antiquities," Book vi.
[65]
Plutarch, "Life of Furius Camillas."
[66]
See below, xxii. 22.
[67]
One hundred and twenty years after the law of the Twelve Tables:
Eo anno plebi Romanæ, velut aliud initium libertatis factum est, quod
necti desierunt. -- Livy, viii. 38.
[68]
"Bona debitoris, non corpus obnoxium esset."-- Ibid.
[69]
The year of Rome 465.
[70]
That of Plautius who made an attempt upon the body of Veturius.
-- Valerius Maximus, vi, 1, art. 9. These two events ought not to be
confounded; they are neither the same persons nor the same times.
[71]
See a fragment of Dionysius Halicarnassus in the "Extract of
Virtues and Vices" [Historica]; Livy's Epitome, ii., and Freinshemius,
ii.
