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p. p. 162.) His explanations are different in detail from mine, but rest on the same general principle that the names Salacia, etc., indicate functions or attributes of the male deity to whom they are attached. [1010] For the taboo on such spoils, and their destruction, see M. S. Reinach's interesting paper "Tarpeia," in _Cultes, mythes, et religions_, iii. 221 foll. APPENDIX IV (LECTURE VIII., PAGE 169 FOLL.) IUS AND FAS In historical times the two kinds of _ius_, _divinum_ and _humanum_, were strongly distinguished (see Wissowa, _R.K._ p. 318, who quotes Gaius ii. 2: "summa itaque rerum divisio in duos articulos diducitur, nam aliae sunt divini iuris, aliae humani"). But it is almost certain that there was originally no such clear distinction. The general opinion of historians of Roman law is thus expressed by Cuq (_Institutions juridiques des Romains_, p. 54): "Le droit civil n'a eu d'abord qu'une portee fort restreinte. Peu a peu il a gagne du terrain, il a entrepris de reglementer des rapports qui autrefois etaient du domaine de la religion. Pendant longtemps a Rome le droit theocratique a coexiste avec le droit civil." (See also Muirhead, _Introduction to Roman Law_, ed. Goudy, p. 15.) Possibly the formation of an organised calendar, marking off the days belonging to the deities from those which were not so made over to them, first gave the opportunity for the gradual realisation of the thought that the set of rules under which the citizen was responsible to the divine beings was not exactly the same as that under which he was responsible to the civil authorities. The distinction took many ages to realise in all its aspects, and is not complete even under the XII. Tables or later, because the sanction for civil offences remained in great part a divine one; on this point Jhering is certainly wrong (_Geist des roem. Rechts_, i. 267 foll.). As Cuq remarks (p. 54, note 1), one institution of the _ius divinum_ kept its force after the complete secularisation of law, and retains it to this day, viz. the oath. If there was originally no distinction between religious and civil rules of law, it follows that there were originally no two distinguishing terms for them. The earliest passage in which they are distinguished as _ius divinum_ and _humanum_ (so far as I know) is Cicero's speech for Sestius (B.C. 56), sec. 91, quoted by Wissowa, p. 319: "domicilia coniuncta quas urbes dicimus, _in
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