[IDEM libro uicesimo secundo digestorum. ] §34.1.19.prTestamento ita cautum fuit: 'libertis meis cibaria quaeque alia praestabam ab heredibus meis praestari uolo': unus ex libertis ex uoluntate patroni negotii sui gratia quadriennio ante diem mortis afuit: ex hac causa cibaria, quae ante acceperat, mortis tempore non accepit: cui tamen liberto eodem testamento patronus, sicut et aliis, quos uiuus manumiserat, legatum quinque dederat.
[BY THE SAME AUTHOR, in the twenty-second book of the Digests.] In a will, it was provided as follows: 'I wish that to my freedmen, the food and any other things which I used to perform should be performed by my heirs.' One of the freedmen, by the will of his patron, was absent for four years before the day of death for the sake of his own business; for this reason, he did not receive at the time of death the food which he had previously received. However, in the same will, the patron had given a bequest of five to this freedman, just as to the others whom he had manumitted while alive.
quaesitum est, an isti quoque cibaria et reliqua, quae ceteris libertis legata sunt, debeantur.
The question was asked whether to him also the food and the other things which were bequeathed to the rest of the freedmen are owed.
respondit: cur non?
He answered: Why not?