Juris civilis initia et progressus. Ad leges XII. Tabularum brevis commentatio. Ex Ulpiani Fragmentorum Tituli XXIX. selectis notis illustrati. Gaii ex veteris jurisprudentiae Fragmentis Institutionu

testimony, let him be cast from the Tarpeian Rock.

That this law was subsequently abrogated is evident from the fact that Martianus writes in Law 1, Digest, On the Cornelian Law concerning assassins, that he who has given false testimony with evil intent, by which someone might be condemned for a capital crime, is held by that law; its penalty is deportation to an island and the forfeiture of all property (Law 3, at the end of the same title).

Plato, book 11, On Laws.

Plato's law, however, is that whoever has given false testimony three times shall be held by public judgment and, if convicted, be punished by death.

THAT NO ONE SHOULD KILL AN UNCONVICTED MAN, NOR BE WITH A WEAPON FOR THE PURPOSE OF KILLING A MAN.

From the oration Pro Milone.

The equity of the law is clear; lest, if it were permitted to kill anyone obviously guilty of a crime without a trial, a window would be opened for audacious and criminal men to commit murders at their pleasure.

Cicero in the Miloniana reasons thus: since the law forbids being with a weapon for the purpose of killing a man, it tacitly permits being with a weapon for the purpose of defending oneself. For this is a place from contraries, the highest precept of which is that the consequences of contraries are themselves contrary.

THAT NO ONE SHOULD CONDUCT NOCTURNAL MEETINGS IN THE CITY.

From the Declamations of Porcius Latro against Catiline.
Hotom.

The law forbids clandestine gatherings, as they offer criminal men the opportunity to dare something against the Republic; just as Menander writes: "Night is the leader of the city's evils."