30,) always preferred tenants born on the estate.

Columella, who received this maxim from him, argues very judiciously on the subject.

De Re Rustica, l.i.c.7, p.

408, edit.Gesner.Leipsig, 1735.] The opulent nobles of an immense capital, who were never excited by the pursuit of military glory, and seldom engaged in the occupations of civil government, naturally resigned their leisure to the business and amusements of private life.

At Rome, commerce was always held in contempt: but the senators, from the first age of the republic, increased their patrimony, and multiplied their clients, by the lucrative practice of usury; and the obselete laws were eluded, or violated, by the mutual inclinations and interest of both parties.