73 – Symmachus is thinking of Virgil’s invocation,

Di patrii, Indigetes, et Romule, Vestaque Mater, &c.

Georg. i. 498.

The Di patrii are explained as being those brought by

Æneas into Italy, Indigetes those native to the soil of

Italy.

74 – In strict law a slave’s peculium was the property of his

owner, but custom had allowed it to be regarded his own

property.

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