25 .-- M.] [Footnote 173: Habemus enim et hominum numerum qui delati sunt, et agrun modum.

Eumenius in Panegyr.Vet.viii.6.See Cod.Theod.l.xiii.

tit.
x.xi., with Godefroy's Commentary.] [Footnote 174: Siquis sacrilega vitem falce succiderit, aut feracium ramorum foetus hebetaverit, quo delinet fidem Censuum, et mentiatur callide paupertatis ingenium, mox detectus capitale subibit exitium, et bona ejus in Fisci jura migrabunt.Cod.Theod.l.xiii.

tit.xi.leg.

1.
Although this law is not without its studied obscurity, it is, however clear enough to prove the minuteness of the inquisition, and the disproportion of the penalty.] [Footnote 175: The astonishment of Pliny would have ceased.