it is now time to defend myself. It will be objected to me, that, indeed, the body of the antrustios formed a distinct order in the state from that of the freemen; but as the fiefs were at first precarious, and afterwards for life, this could not form a nobleness of descent, since the privileges were not annexed to an hereditary fief.
Esango zait antrustioien taldeak gizon libreena ez bezalako taldea osatzen zuela Estatuan, baina, feudoak hasieran aldagarriak eta gero biziartekoak izan zirenez, hortik ezin zela jatorrizko aitoren semetzarik sortu, pribilegioak ez zeudelako oinordetzazko feudo bati lotuta.