[ULPIANUS libro septimo de officio proconsulis. ] §48.6.6.prEt eum, qui puerum ingenuum rapuit, puniendum diuus Pius rescripsit in haec uerba: 'Exemplum libelli dati mihi a Domitio Siluano nomine Domitii Siluani patrui subici iussi, motus querella eius, qua significauit filium suum ingenuum, iuuenem admodum, raptum atque conclusum, mox uerberibus ac tormentis usque ad summum periculum adflictum Gemine carissime: uelim audias eum et, si compereris haec ita admissa, rem seuere exequaris'.
[ULPIANUS, On the Office of Proconsul, Book 7] And the deified Pius replied in these words that he also, who has abducted a freeborn boy, must be punished: "I have ordered the copy of the petition presented to me by Domitius Silvanus in the name of his uncle Domitius Silvanus to be subjoined, moved by his complaint, in which he indicated that his freeborn son, a very young man, was abducted and confined, and then afflicted with lashes and tortures even to the point of extreme danger. My dearest Geminus, I would wish you to hear him and, if you find that these things were so committed, to prosecute the matter severely."