law
Lex Duodecim Tabularum
Twelve Tables
also: XII Tables
Rome's first written code of law (450 BC); memorised by Roman schoolboys into the late Republic. Crassus's hyperbole at De Or. 1.195: it surpasses the libraries of all the philosophers.
law
Twelve Tables
also: XII Tables
Rome's first written code of law (450 BC); memorised by Roman schoolboys into the late Republic. Crassus's hyperbole at De Or. 1.195: it surpasses the libraries of all the philosophers.