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the absence either of original documents or full copies, we must fall back in the first place upon such quotations as bear evidence of at least high antiquity and are reputed fragments of regal legislation. It need scarcely be said that professed imitations, such as those in Cicero's treatise, must be entirely excluded except as evidence of the views received in the imitator's