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was composed in Greek, owing to the seat of the empire being then at Constantinople, where few or none spoke Latin in perfection; notwithstanding which some of then were published in Latin, and have been noticed by … these ten commissioners, or Decemviri, became invested with the sole management of State affairs. The Ten Tables they drew up, having been approved by the … is known by the name of Jus Civile Papirianum. Legislation under the kings must have been extremely simple; very few relics of it, however, have been preserved, and among them it is almost impossible to distinguish the