33. See Procopius, de Bell. Vandal. 1. i. c. 4, p. 186 [tom.
i. p. 327, ed. Bonn]. Valentinian published several humane
laws to relieve the distress of his Numidian and Mauritanian
subjects; he discharged them in a great measure from the
payment of their debts, reduced their tribute to one-eighth,
and gave them a right of appeal from their provincial
magistrates to the praefect of Rome. Cod. Theod. tom. vi.
Novell. p. 1 l, 12.