[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople 23/38
* Note: At Rome the poorer citizens who received these gratuities were inscribed in a register; they had only a personal right.
Constantine attached the right to the houses in his new capital, to engage the lower classes of the people to build their houses with expedition.
Codex Therodos.
l. xiv .-- G.] [Footnote 59: See Cod.Theodos.l.xiii.and xiv., and Cod.
Justinian. Edict.xii.tom.ii.p.
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