Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), P, Pitĭnum, Plagium

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Kidnapping; slave-stealing. A crime punishable by Roman law with a fine and infamia. The offence was a common one, but was severely dealt with by Augustus (Suet. Aug. 32). See Rein, Das Criminalrecht der Römer, p. 386, and the article Servus.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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