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Idem Augustus Demostheni P. P. Nemiui licere volumus, sive ab ingenuis genitori. bus puer parvulus procreatus, sive a libertina progenie, sive servili conditione maculatus expositus sit, cum puerum in suum dominium vindicare, sive nomine dominii, sive ascriptitiae, sive colonariae conditionis. Sed neque his qui eos nutriendos sustulerint, licentiam concedimus penitus cum quadam distinctione eos tollere. Sed nullo discrimine habito, hi qui ab hujusmodi bominibus educati, vel nutriti, vel aucti sunt, liberi et ingenui appareant, et sibi acquirant, et in posteritatem suam vel extraneos hæredes omnia quae habuerint, quo modo voluerint, transmittant.
The same Augustus to Demosthenes, Praetorian Prefect. We will that it be permitted to no one — whether a little child begotten of freeborn parents, or of freedman stock, or stained with servile condition, has been exposed — to claim such a child into his own dominion, whether under the title of ownership, or of the adscriptitious, or of the colonary condition. But neither to those who have taken them up to be nourished do we wholly grant licence to take them up with any such distinction. But, no distinction being made, those who have been brought up, or nourished, or reared by men of this kind shall appear free and freeborn, and shall acquire for themselves, and shall transmit to their posterity or to outside heirs all that they shall have possessed, in whatever manner they will.
同一奧古斯都致禁衛軍統領德謨斯提尼。我們意欲：無論被遺棄的幼兒是出於自由身分的父母，或出於被釋奴的後裔，或帶有奴籍之玷污，皆不准任何人將此孩童據為己有，無論是以所有權之名，或以登記佃農、或以隸農身分之名。而對那些將他們收養撫育之人，我們也絕不容許他們以任何此種區分而收養之。反之，不作任何區別，凡由此種人撫養、養育或扶持長大者，皆當顯為自由與生而自由之人，得為自己取得財產，並得按其所願，將所擁有的一切傳給其後裔或外姓繼承人。
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Haec observantibus non solum praesidibus provinciarum, sed etiam viris religiosissimis episcopis. Datum Cbalcedone, VIII Kalend. Jul., Lampadio et Oreste vv. cc. coss. 510.
These things being observed not only by the governors of the provinces, but also by the most religious men, the bishops. Given at Chalcedon, on the eighth day before the Kalends of July, in the consulship of the most distinguished Lampadius and Orestes, in the year 510.
這些事不僅由各省的總督遵守，也由最虔敬的人，即主教們遵守。頒於迦克墩，七月朔日前第八日，當至顯赫的蘭帕迪烏斯與奧瑞斯特執政之年，公元510年。