[ALFENUS libro primo epitomarum. ] §48.22.3.prEum, qui ciuitatem amitteret, nihil aliud iuris adimere liberis, nisi quod ab ipso peruenturum esset ad eos, si intestatus in ciuitate moreretur: hoc est hereditatem eius et libertos et si quid aliud in hoc genere repperiri potest.
[Alfenus, Epitomes, Book I.] That he who loses citizenship deprives his children of no other right except that which would have come to them from himself, if he had died intestate in the state; that is, his inheritance, his freedmen, and whatever else of this kind can be found.
quae uero non a patre, sed a genere, a ciuitate, a rerum natura tribuerentur, ea manere eis incolumia.
But those things which are bestowed not by the father, but by descent, by the state, by the nature of things, remain unimpaired for them.
itaque et fratres fratribus fore legitimos heredes et adgnatorum tutelas et hereditates habituros: non enim haec patrem, sed maiores eius eis dedisse.
And therefore brothers will be lawful heirs to brothers, and they will have the guardianships and inheritances of agnates; for it was not their father who gave them these things, but his ancestors.