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The Testament we are considering the Testament per æs et libram, "with the copper and the scales," as it long continued to be technically called was an ordinary Mancipation with no change in the form and hardly any in words.
Volo quoque vernas qui domi meae sunt, omnes a praetore urbano liberos, cum matribus dimitti, singulisque libram argenti puri, et vestem unam dori. In Lusitania. In agro VIII. Cal Quintilis, bello viriatino."
A definition which has descended to us from one of the Latin antiquarians describes nexum as omne quod geritur per æs et libram, "every transaction with the copper and the balance," and these words have occasioned a good deal of perplexity.
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