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Twelve Tables, The, LCL 329: Remains of Old Latin III
Edited and translated by E. H. Warmington Vol. 3

Number of quotes: 4


Book ID: 305 Page: 7

Section: 5C

But now costly foreign wares bring luxury:

Nonius: ‘Tunica’ is a garment without sleeves…-

“Bordered cloaks and underdress, all dirty mean workmanship of Lydians,” {b}

….

{b} Result of the bequeathing by Attalus III of his kingdom to Rome, 133 B.C.—cf. Cichor., 228-9.

Quote ID: 7536

Time Periods: 0


Book ID: 305 Page: 493

Section: 1B,3B

Nocturnal meetings not permitted:

Porcius Latro: We learn in the Twelve Tables that provision was made that no person shall hold meetings by night in the city.

PJ: Clubs

Quote ID: 7537

Time Periods: 12


Book ID: 305 Page: 497

Section: 2A3

No burial or cremation allowed in the city:

Cicero:--

A dead man

says a law in the Twelve

shall not be buried or burned within the city;

Quote ID: 7538

Time Periods: 0


Book ID: 305 Page: 505

Section: 4B

Table XI, Supplementary Laws (i)

Intermarriage of patricians and plebeians:

Cicero: When the Board of Ten had put into writing, using the greatest fairness and wisdom, ten tables of laws, they caused to be elected in their stead, for the next year, another Board of Ten, whose good faith and justice have not been praised to a like extent….When they had added two tables of unfair laws, they ordained, by a very inhuman law, that intermarriage, which is usually permitted even between peoples of separate States, should not take place between our plebeians and our patricians.

Quote ID: 8540

Time Periods: 0



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