Idem Massilienses quoque ad hoc tempus usurpant, disciplinae gravitate, prisci moris observantia, caritate populi Romani praecipue conspicui, qui tres in eodem manumissiones rescindere permittunt; si ter ab eodem deceptum dominum cognoverunt, quarto errori subveniendum non putant, quia sua iam culpa iniuriam accepit qui ei se totiens obiecit.
The Massilians also to this day practice this same; especially remarkable as they are for gravity of discipline and observance of ancient custom and devotion to the Roman people. They allow three revocations of a manumission in the same individual if they find that he disappointed his master three times. They do not think it proper to come to the rescue of a fourth mistake, since one who exposed himself so often to injury suffered it by his own fault.
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