Book 20
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A discussion of the jurist Sextus Caecilius and the philosopher Favorinus about the laws of the Twelve Tables.
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SEXTUS CAECILIUS was famed for his knowledge, experience and authority in the science of jurisprudence and in understanding and interpreting the laws of the Roman people. It happened that as we were waiting to pay our respects to Caesar, That is, Antoninus Pius. the philosopher Favorinus met and accosted Caecilius in the Palatine square The Area Palatina was originally the space bounded on the west by the Domus Tiberiana, or Palace of Tiberius, and the Domus Augustana; as time went on, it must have been bounded and restricted by other parts of the Imperial Palace. in my presence and that of several others. In the conversation which they carried on at the time mention was made of the laws of the decemvirs, which the board of ten appointed by the people for that purpose wrote and inscribed upon twelve tablets. These laws were set up in the Forum on ten tablets of bronze in 451 B.C., to which two more tablets were added in 450.
