[66]
What I have said about
mothers will apply to either parent; for I have
known of litigation taking place between fathers
and sons as well, after the emancipation1 of the son.
And when other relationships are concerned, we
must take care to create the impression that we
have spoken with reluctance and under stress of
necessity and that we have been forbearing in our
language; but the importance of so doing will vary
according to the respect due to the persons concerned. The same courtesy should be observed in
speaking on behalf of freedmen against their patrons.
[p. 195]
In fact, to sum up, it will never become us to plead
against such persons in a tone which we ourselves
should have resented in the mouth of men of like
condition.
1 I.e. from the patria potestas by a fictitious form of sale.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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