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

Seats of the Lares. See the commentary of Joannes Ludovicus Vives on Chapter 11, Book 9, On the City of God.

LET THEM OBSERVE THE RITES OF THE FAMILY AND THE FATHERS.

Rites of the family. Modestinus looked to this in Law 1, Digest, On the rite of marriage, when he says, Marriage is the union, etc.

And let them observe the fathers. Cicero and Oldendorp interpret this. Even if many of these were impious, Oldendorp nevertheless applies them gracefully to our forum: indeed, he demonstrates that they pertain in some way to the forming of morals.

PRIVATE SACRED RITES SHALL REMAIN PERPETUAL.

From Cicero, Pro Murena.

Testimony of this law exists in Cicero’s Oration for Murena, where he speaks thus: Since very many things had been constituted excellently by the laws, most of them have been corrupted and depraved by the talents of jurists. They did not want sacred rites to perish: by the ingenuity of these men, old men were found to make coemptiones ceremonial purchases for the sake of causing sacred rites to be abandoned.

DO NOT BURY OR BURN A DEAD MAN WITHIN THE CITY.

This law exists in the same words in Cicero, book 2, On Laws, where he writes thus: Let there be no burial or burning of a dead man in the city (the law says in the XII). Then he explains the law thus: The law forbids burial in the city; thus it was decreed by the college of Pontiffs, that it is not right for a sepulcher to be made in a public place. For the college determined that a public place could not be obligated by private religion. Servius, however, in Book 5 of the Aeneid, recorded for memory that among the ancestors