Note 395 — Chapter II · THE GROWTH OF THE REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION
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Liv. iii. 57. The accounts of the material of the “Tables” vary. Livy (l.c.) says “in aes incisas in publico proposuerunt”; Pomponius (in Dig., cited p. 102) says “in tabulas eboreas perscriptas” (perhaps roboreas or aereas, Kipp, Quellenkunde des R.R. p. 8). It is possible that they were of wood.