Friends in Council a Series of Readings And Discourse Thereon volume 2
Friends in Council a Series of Readings And Discourse Thereon volume 2
Arthur Helps
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By a law of Claudius, a mafter who expofed his fick or infirm flaves, forfeited all rights over them, in the event of their recovery ; and the fame con- fequences followed the expofure of infant flaves. The Petronian law (pafl^ed A. U. C. 813, ) prohibited mas- ters from compelling their flaves to fight with wild beafts. Hadrian reflrained a proprietor from felling his flave to a keeper of gladiators, {lanljla) or to a pander, [leno) except as a punifhment ; and then, only with the fancSlion of... the judge. Till a late era, the ties of affec- tion and of blood, among flaves, were not faved from arbitrary difregard, by any law introduced for the good of the fervile clafles. Wc meet, indeed, with fome traces of a feeling againft the feparation of the members of fervile families, at an earlier date, but no pofitive leglflative enactments on the fubjeil, were IflTued, prior to feveral humane rules eftablifhed by Conftantine. * Paffing from thefe ancient times, when men's hearts were hardened by paganifm, we have to fee whether a religion of acknowledged love and Blair'' s Inquiry, p.
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