Nam cum aut civium suorum aliquis ab hostibus esset captus aut virgo amici nubilis, quae propter paupertatem collocari non posset, amicorum consilium habebat et quantum quisque daret pro facultatibus imperabat.
For if anyone of his fellow-citizens had been taken by the enemy, or if a friends daughter was of marriageable age but could not be wedded because of lack of means, he took counsel of his friends and fixed the amount of the contribution which each was to make, adapting the sum to the contributors means.
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