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He was a bastard of the House of the Neapolitan Sanseverini, princes of Salerno, whom he nevertheless refused to recognize, writing, in reply to an invitation to live with them, the famous letter: 'Pomponius Laetus cognatis et propinquis suis salutem. Quod petitis fieri non potest.
A few lines in Persius contain a good summary of all the objects of moral investigation, and hint the result of our inquiry: There human will has no place. Quid sumus? et quidnam victuri gignimur? ordo Quis datus? et metæ quis mollis flexus, et unde? Quis modus argento? Quid fas optare? Quid asper Utile nummus habet? Patriæ charisque propinquis Quantum elargiri debet?
Sed et levioribus delictis, pro modo poenarum, equorum pecorumque numero convicti mulctantur: pars mulctae regi vel civitati, pars ipsi, qui vindicatur, vel propinquis ejus exsolvitur. Eliguntur in iisdem conciliis et principes, qui jura per pagos vicosque reddunt. Centeni singulis ex plebe comites, consilium simul et auctoritas, adsunt.
"Quid fas optare: quid asper Utile nummus habet: patrix carisque propinquis Quantum elargiri deceat: quern te Deus esse Jussit, et humana qua parte locatus es in re; Quid sumus, et quidnam victuri gignimur."
"Restored to his dear neighbors and friends caris propinquis " "Hang me, but I wish you'd speak plain English an' not pepper your talk win outlandish jabber." "Patience, Job; why, man, you belie your name.
Cf. lex Wisigothorum, iv, 2, 11: maritus et uxor tunc sibi hereditario iure succedant, quando mulla affinitas usque ad septimum gradum de propinquis eorum vel parentibus inveniri poterit. See also Lex Burgundionum, 14, 1. Lex Saxonum, ix. Lex Ripuariorum, 37, 2. Lex Saxonum, viii. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 3, 3. Lex Burgundionum 85, 1, and 62, 1. Lex Burgundionum, 42, 1; 62, 1; 74, 1.
"Eo quod," saith the text, "fratribus, et propinquis violentiam intulerit, et nepotem suum, quern ipse liberate poterat, interfici permiserit": "Because he used violence to his brothers and kinsmen, and suffered his nephew to be slain whom he might have delivered." Yet did he that which few kings do; namely, repent him of his cruelty.
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