# The Law of the Twelve Tables 1.136-173

Roman Law and Society, The Law of the Twelve Tables, Lines 1.136-1.173. Latin.

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24. If a missile has sped from the hand, and the holder has not aimed it . . .
25. . . . poison . . .
26. No person shall hold meetings by night in the city.
Table IX: Public Law
1-2. Laws of personal exception ( privilegia ) must not be proposed; cases in which the penalty affects the caput or person of a citizen must not be decided except through the greatest assembly ( maximum comitiatum ) and through those whom the [censors] have placed upon the register of citizens.
3. . . . capital punishment on a judge or arbiter legally appointed who had been found guilty of receiving a bribe for giving a decision.
4. . . . investigators of murder (quaestores parricidii ).
5. He who shall have roused up a public enemy or handed over a citizen to a public enemy must suffer capital punishment.
6. Putting to death . . . of any man, whosoever he might be, unconvicted is forbidden.
Table X: Sacred Law
1. A dead man shall not be buried or burned within the city.
2. One must not do more than this; one must not smooth the pyre with an axe . . .
3. . . .three veils, one small purple tunic, and 10 flute-players.
4. A woman must not tear her cheeks or hold a chorus of “Alas!” on account of a funeral.
5. When a man is dead, one must not gather bones whereby to make an funeral after.
6. Anointing by slaves is abolished and every kind of drinking-bout. Let there be no costly sprinkling, . . . no long garlands, . . . no incense-boxes.
8-9. A person must not add gold (to the funeral pyre). But him whose teeth shall have been fastened together with gold, if a person shall bury or burn him along with that gold, it shall be with impunity.
Table XI: Supplementary Laws
1. [Marriages] should not take place between plebeians and patricians.

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