For these familial servants, because they are men without God, have no common share in the divine things, and, consequently, have no share with the nobles in the community constituted by the human things; and principally they have no claim to observing the solemn nuptials which in in large
part, upon the auspices; on account of the auspices, the nobles supposed
themselves to be of divine origin and considered their familial servants
to have the bestial origins of those who were begotten from unholy couplings.