1Let us remember that you were sent to that province precisely because many things in it appeared to need correcting. 1And this above all will need to be corrected: that those who had been condemned to punishment have not only been released from it without authority, as you write, but are even being brought back into the status of respectable servants. 2Those, therefore, who were condemned within these last ten years and released by no proper authority must be returned to their punishment; 2if any older cases are found, old men condemned more than ten years ago, let us assign them to those services which are not far removed from punishment.
2Such men are usually assigned to the bath, to the cleaning of sewers, and likewise to the repair of roads and streets.