[IDEM libro nono de officio proconsulis. ] §48.15.2.prSciendum est legem Fabiam ad eos non pertinere, qui, cum absentes seruos haberent, eos uendiderunt: aliud est enim abesse, aliud in fuga esse.
[THE SAME, Book IX on the Office of Proconsul.] It must be known that the Fabian law does not apply to those who, when they had absent slaves, sold them; for it is one thing to be absent, and another to be in flight.
§48.15.2.1Item non pertinere ad eum, qui mandauit seruum fugitiuum persequendum et distrahendum: nec enim fugam uendidit.
Likewise, it does not apply to one who commissioned a fugitive slave to be pursued and sold; for he did not sell a flight.
§48.15.2.2Amplius dicendum est et si quis Titio mandauerit seruum fugitiuum adprehendendum, ut, si adprehendisset, eum emptum haberet, cessare senatus consultum.
Furthermore, it must be said that even if someone commissioned Titius to apprehend a fugitive slave, on the condition that, if he apprehended him, he should have him as purchased, the senate decree does not apply.
H §48.15.2.3oc autem senatus consulto domini quoque continentur, qui fugam seruorum suorum uendiderunt.
Th is senate decree, however, also includes those masters who sold the flight of their own slaves.