Book 5
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I have observed in a speech of Publius Scipio On Morals, which he made to the people in his censorship, that among the things that he criticized, on the ground that they were done contrary to the usage of our forefathers, he also found fault with this, that an adopted son was of profit to his adoptive father in gaining the rewards for paternity. That is, the privileges and exemptions conferred upon the fathers of children, later comprised under the ius trium liberorum; see ii. 15. 3 ff. The passage in that speech is as follows: O.R.F.2 p. 180. A father votes in one tribe, the son in another, The meaning is that a man who had been adopted would vote in the tribe of his adoptive father, which might be different from that of his own father. an adopted son is of as much advantage as if one had a son of his own; orders are given to take the census of absentees, and hence it is not necessary for anyone to appear in person at the census.
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The Latin word coined by Sinnius Capito for solecism, and what the early writers of Latin called that same fault: and also Sinnius Capito's definition of a solecism.
