CHAPTER XXXII

AND TO THOSE WHO HAD BEEN IGNOMINIOUSLY EMPLOYED IN THE MINES AND PUBLIC WORKS

“AGAIN, with regard to those who have been condemned either to the grievous labour of the mines, or to service in the public works, let them enjoy the sweets of leisure in place of these long continued toils, and henceforth lead a far easier life, and more accordant with the wishes of their hearts, exchanging the incessant hardships of their tasks for a pleasing and quiet rest. And if any have forfeited the common privilege of liberty, or have unhappily fallen under any mark of infamy; let them hasten back every one to the country of his nativity, and resume with becoming joy their former positions in society, from which they have been as it were estranged by long absence in a foreign land.