They reported the case, and the substance of the debate, requesting to know whether the prince would, of his own authority, enact a law that had but few to oppose it. In support of the motion, it had been argued, that the freedmen were leagued in a faction against their patrons, and had the insolence to think them answerable for their conduct in the senate. They went so far as to threaten violence to their persons; they raised their hands against their benefactors, and, with audacious contumacy, presumed to hinder them from seeking redress in due course of law. The patron, it is true, has peculiar privileges: but in what do they consist?
(***), lagun gutxiren eta aurkako iritzien artean bezala, bitartean batzuek suminki aldarrikatzen zutelarik askatasunak xaxaturiko errespeturik eza hainbestean gainezkatu zela, ezen jada ugazabekin eskubide berdintasunez jokatzen baitzuten, haien iritzia zapaltzen baitzuten, eskua jotzeko altxatzeraino, lotsarik gabe edo zer zigor behar zuten eurek aholkatuz.