a pyre, and another a Bustum, or tymbon tomb. See law 6, Digest, On the regulation of boundaries. And just as the law feared fire in the case of pyres (which Tullius noted), so in the case of tombs it was necessary to guard against the foul odor of corpses and the pestilence of the air. See law 3, Digest, On the burial place.

Section: In the second chapter, the law cautions that it is not permitted for the courtyard of a sepulcher or a tomb to be acquired by use.

What a forum is.

Festus relates that the ancients called that a forum which is now commonly called the vestibule of a sepulcher. And regarding the vestibule and the perimeter of sepulchers, the reason for the law is clear: namely, that there might be the power for heirs to justly gather at the sepulcher annually.

On the law of sepulchers.

Cicero, Philippics 9: Our ancestors, he says, decreed statues to many: sepulchers to a few. But statues perish by storm, violence, age: the sanctity of sepulchers, however, is in the soil itself, which can be moved or destroyed by no force.

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CONCERNING PUBLIC LAW OF THE

Laws of the XII. Tables.

From Cicero, Book 3, On Laws.

LET THEM NOT IMPOSE PRIVILEGES. CONCERNING THE LIFE OF A CITIZEN, LET THEM NOT PASS JUDGMENT, UNLESS THROUGH THE GREATEST ASSEMBLY.

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From Hotoman.

A woodcut initial 'H' featuring a seated figure surrounded by decorative vines and foliage. Cicero restored these two laws from the XII Tables into the order of his own laws in On Laws, book 3, and writes about them a little later thus: Then two most excellent laws transferred from the XII Tables: of which one removes privileges individual enactments, often aimed at punishing or favoring specific persons