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[1394] We seem to have the names of two former owners, Varianus and Mancia. For the retention of names of former owners see Dittenberger in _Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae_ No 669 note 18. Rostowzew _Gesch des Röm colonates_ ch 4 rejects this view and makes the _lex Manciana_ an imperial law.

[1395] Pliny _epist_ III 19 § 7. Digest XIX 2 § 19², XXXII § 91¹, XXXIII 7 _passim_.

[1396] Dig XIX 2 § 3, and Monro’s note.

[1397] So Cuq, Seeck, Schulten, rightly I think. But in practice I believe the chance seldom occurred.

[1398] Text in Girard, part I