Eandem immunitatem in paternis bonis filio tribuit, si modo reductus esset in patris potestatem, ratus improbe et insolenter ac paene impie his nominibus inseri publicanum, nec sine piaculo quodam sanctissimas necessitudines velut intercedente vicesima scindi; nullum tanti esse vectigal, quod liberos ac parentes faceret extraneos.
He extended the same exemption to a son in respect of his fathers property, provided that he was still under his fathers authority, thinking that it was excessive, unprecedented, and might even be called impious for a tax-collectors name to be associated with theirs; and that it was positively sacrilegious for a relationship so sacred to be severed by the intervention of an inheritance tax. Indeed, he thought that no tax was worth the cost of estranging parents and children.
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