His eyes fill with tears, and he murmurs, "When peace is made, my faithful Stychus, I shall have a pleasant surprise for you.
You shall hear talk of the Lex Junia Norband, I promise you!" Is not this a worthy subject for picture or statue in a competition for the Prix de Rome?
A man so careful of details must have assigned a special dress to these special freedmen of his creation; for at Rome even freedom had its livery.

What was this dress?
Was there one at all?
No authority that I know of throws any light on the subject.

Still one hope remains: M.
Flamaran.

He knows so many things, he might even know this.
M.Flamaran comes from the south-Marseilles, I think.

He is not a specialist in Roman law; but he is encyclopedic, which comes to the same thing.