[IDEM libro sexto cognitionum. ] §50.2.12.prEos, qui utensilia negotiantur et uendunt, licet ab aedilibus caeduntur, non oportet quasi uiles personas neglegi.
[THE SAME, In the Sixth Book on Cognitions.] Those who trade in and sell daily necessities, even if they are beaten by the aediles, ought not to be neglected as if they were worthless persons.
denique non sunt prohibiti huiusmodi homines decurionatum uel aliquem honorem in sua patria petere: nec enim infames sunt.
In short, men of this kind are not forbidden to seek the decurionate or any honor in their own municipality; for they are not infamous.
sed ne quidem arcentur honoribus, qui ab aedilibus flagellis caesi sunt, quamquam iure suo ita aediles officio isto fungantur.
Indeed, not even those who have been beaten with whips by the aediles are excluded from honors, although the aediles may thus perform that duty by their own right.
inhonestum tamen puto esse huiusmodi personas flagellorum ictibus subiectas in ordinem recipi, et maxime in eis ciuitatibus, quae copiam uirorum honestorum habeant: nam paucitas eorum, qui muneribus publicis fungi debeant, necessaria etiam hos ad dignitatem municipalem, si facultates habeant, inuitat.
Nevertheless, I think it is dishonorable for persons of this kind, who have been subjected to the blows of whips, to be admitted into the order, and especially in those cities which have an abundance of honorable men; for the scarcity of those who ought to perform public duties inevitably invites even these, if they have the means, to municipal dignity.