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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 8 | 8 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 21-22 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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442
B.C.When Diphilus was
archon in Athens, the Romans elected as consuls
Marcus Horatius and Lucius Valerius Turpinus. In Rome
during this year, since the legislation remained unfinished because of the civil discord, the
consuls brought it to conclusion; that is, of the Twelve Tables, as they are called, ten had
been drawn up, and the consuls wrote into law the two remaining. After the legislation they had
undertaken had been concluded, the consuls engraved the laws on twelve bronze tablets and
affixed them to the Rostra before the Senate-house. And the legislation as it was drawn up,
since it is couched in such brief and pithy language, has continued to be admired by men down
to our own day. While the
events we have described were taking place, the greater number of the nations of the inhabited
world were quiet, practically all of them being at peace. For the Persians had two treaties
with the Greeks, one with the Ath