Note 146 — XV THE HISTORY OF LEGAL DEVELOPMENT AT ROME AND IN ENGLAND
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‘Bibliothecas mehercule omnium philosophorum unus mihi videtur xii tabularum libellus, siquis legum fontes et capita viderit, et auctoritatis pondere et utilitatis ubertate superare’ (De Orat. i. 44). An odd comparison, and one in which there is more of patriotism than of philosophy.