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Rh the cause of luxury to another. The eighth, that young men should have but one habit during the year; the ninth, that poor lads should be employed in the fields, and not in the forum, by which their first years should be spent in hard labour, not in idleness. The tenth law exacted that virgins be married without dowry; the eleventh that wives be not elected for money; and the twelfth, that the greatest honour should not be assigned to the greatest wealth, but to priority in years. And whatever law Ligurius established, he was himself the first to observe beyond all others.

My beloved, the knight is Christ; and the laws, those moral ordinances which he established.