31. That is, they give up their full citizen status, and become bound to the soil, being no longer subject to direct taxation. This would seem a harsher alternative than the preceding, yet actual conditions lead Salvian to reckon it as the wiser course.
32. Castella had already become frequent sanctuaries in exposed territories.
33. Churches had taken the right of sanctuary formerly held by pagan temples; cf. Cod. Theod. IX. 45.
34. Compare the commentary on their status in Haemmerle, op. cit. II. 19-25, where Salvian's use of the terms coloni and inquilini as interchangeable is discussed.
35. Psalms 128. 2.
36. Romans 2. 4-5.
37. Psalms 49.11-12.
38. Isaiah 5. 8.
39. Pliny Panegyric 49: "In vain has he girded himself with terror, who was not fenced about with charity; for arms are stirred up by arms."
40. Luke 9. 24.
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