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Twelve Tables

plural noun

  1. the Twelve Tables
    the earliest code of Roman civil, criminal, and religious law, promulgated in 451–450 bc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The Laws of the Twelve Tables, Rome’s first set of rules dating back to 450 B.C., included instructions to make straight roads eight feet wide, stipulated what to do in case of water damage and decreed who “shall build and repair the road.”

Twelve tables were set up in the dining room.

Cicero's was the last generation that learnt the Twelve Tables by heart at school ut carmen necessarium; and Varro, Cicero's contemporary, was the first and perhaps the greatest of all Roman antiquaries.

The laws of the twelve tables prohibited the practice of this waste of gold.

By the laws of the twelve tables such enchantments were punished with death; and Numantina, wife of Plautius Sylvanus, was accused, Injecisse carminibus et veneficiis vecordiam marito.

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