the progress of this
national intercourse 1. Herodotus and Thucydides (A. U. C. 300--350)
appear ignorant of the name and existence of Rome, (Joseph. contra
Appion tom. ii. l. i. c. 12, p. 444, edit. Havercamp.) 2. Theopompus (A.
U. C. 400, Plin. iii. 9) mentions the invasion of the Gauls, which is
noticed in looser terms by Heraclides Ponticus, (Plutarch in Camillo, p.
292, edit. H. Stephan.) 3. The real or fabulous embassy of the Romans to
Alexander (A. U. C. 430) is attested by Clitarchus, (Plin. iii. 9,) by
Aristus and Asclepiades, (Arrian. l. vii. p. 294, 295,) and by Memnon of
Heraclea, (apud Photium, cod. ccxxiv. p. 725,) though tacitly denied by
Livy. 4. Theophrastus (A. U. C. 440) primus externorum aliqua de Romanis
diligentius scripsit, (Plin. iii. 9.) 5. Lycophron (A. U. C. 480--500)
scattered the first seed of a Trojan colony and the fable of the Aeneid,
(Cassandra, 1226--1280.) A bold prediction before the end of the first
Punic war! * Note: Compare Niebuhr throughout. Niebuhr has written
a dissertation (Kleine Schriften, i. p. 438,) arguing from this
prediction, and on the other conclusive grounds, that the Lycophron,
the author of the Cassandra, is not the Alexandrian poet. He had been
anticipated in this sagacious criticism, as he afterwards discovered,
by a writer of no less distinction than Charles James Fox.--Letters to
Wakefield. And likewise by the author of the extraordinary translation
of this poem, that most promising scholar, Lord Royston. See the Remains
of Lord Royston, by the Rev. Henry Pepys, London, 1838.]

[Footnote 19: The tenth table, de modo sepulturae, was borrowed from
Solon, (Cicero de Legibus, ii. 23--26:) the furtem per lancem et
licium conceptum, is derived by Heineccius from the manners of Athens,
(Antiquitat. Rom. tom. ii. p. 167--175.) The right of killing a
nocturnal thief was declared by Moses, Solon, and the Decemvirs, (Exodus
xxii. 3. Demosthenes contra Timocratem, tom. i. p. 736, edit. Reiske.
Macrob. Saturnalia, l. i. c. 4. Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanatum,
tit, vii. No. i. p. 218, edit. Cannegieter.) *Note: Are not the same
points of similarity discovered in the legislation of all actions in the
infancy of their civilization?--W.]

Chapter XLIV: Idea Of The Roman Jurisprudence.--Part II.

Whatever might be the origin or the merit of the twelve tables, [20]
they obtained among the Romans that blind and partial reverence which
the lawyers of every country