Twelve Tables

Now this magic of which you accuse me is, I am told, a crime in the eyes of the law, and was forbidden in remote antiquity by the Twelve Tables because in some incredible manner crops had been charmed away from one field to another.

The Defense Apuleius 2008

Now this magic of which you accuse me is, I am told, a crime in the eyes of the law, and was forbidden in remote antiquity by the Twelve Tables because in some incredible manner crops had been charmed away from one field to another.

The Defense Apuleius 2008

Now this magic of which you accuse me is, I am told, a crime in the eyes of the law, and was forbidden in remote antiquity by the Twelve Tables because in some incredible manner crops had been charmed away from one field to another.

The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914

Tables, which, with the simplicity proper to all legislation, conferred reciprocal rights of succession on all agnates alike, whether males or females, and excluded no degree by reason merely of its remoteness, after the analogy of family heirs; but it was introduced by the jurists who came between the Twelve Tables and the imperial legislation, and who with their legal subtleties and refinements excluded females other than sisters altogether from agnatic succession.

The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

Decemviri appointed, 37; their tyranny, 37; the Twelve Tables, 38;

A Smaller History of Rome William Smith 1853

The Romans had their dii manes, i.e. divine ancestral spirits ( "Eos leto datos divos habento" -- Laws of the Twelve Tables as cited by

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Cicero places them between the _Jus Civile_ and the Twelve Tables (De Or. i.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879