CHAPTER 47. _Twelve Tables._ In this, the earliest Roman code,

punishment was imposed on any person _qui fruges excantassit_, or _qui malum carmen incantassit_. Pliny, N.H. xxviii. 2. 17.

_Quindecimvirs._ The _quindecimviri sacris faciundis_ were priests of Apollo and had charge of the Sibylline books.

The _three powers that make up the soul_ are those mentioned in the Timaeus, 35 sqq., i.e. _Same_, _Other_, and _Essence_.

epilepsy occurred during the meeting of the _comitia_, the assembly was immediately broken up.

_Theophrastus_, cp. fragm. 175_w_. Diog. Laert. v. 2. 13.

contrahit, tu patronos.' The pun is (_a_) bad and (_b_) untranslatable into reasonably good English. The literal meaning is 'Thallus contracts his hands, you collect advocates'.

_Aesculapius._ Cp. Florida 18.

_the mysteries of father Liber._ The mysterious object is probably the mystic casket (_cista_) containing the [Greek: phallos], emblem of fertility.

the slaying of animals for the service of man. Cp. Herodotus ii. 81.

_Mezentius._ Cp. Verg. Aen. vii. 647 'contemptor divom'.

'exceedingly,' and _oppido_, 'town,' does not admit of reproduction.