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Oh! righteous court, where generals preside, And regimental rogues are justly tried!
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Others read
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Mutinensi.
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Plantâ mox undique magnâ calcor, et in digito clavus mihi militis hæret (and 322,
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Adjutor gelidos veniam caligatus in agros ). This was one of the _tender_ recollections Umbritius had when leaving Rome. The caliga, being a thick sole with no upper leather, bound to the foot with thongs, and studded underneath with iron nails, would be a fearful thing to encounter on one's shins or toes. (Justin says,
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Antiochus' soldiers were shod with gold; treading that under foot for which men fight with iron.
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And where's the Pylades, the faithful friend, That shall thy journey to the camp attend? Be wise in time! See those tremendous shoes! Nor ask a service which e'en fools refuse.
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Quam si dicas sub judice Vidi, quod non vidisti.
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Incomptis Curium capillis. ii., Od. xv., 11,
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Intonsi Catonis, Tib., II., i., 84,
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Intonsis avis.
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therefore, is opposed to the
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here, and by Pliny, Epist. x., 18,
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Et milites et pagani. Epist. vii., 25,
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Ut in castris, sic etiam in literis nostris (sunt), plures culto pagano quos cinctos et armatos, diligentius scrutatus invenies.
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With much more ease false witnesses you'll find To swear away the life of some poor hind, Than get the true ones all they know to own Against a soldier's fortune and renown.
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For they hold the boundary stones to be gods; and sacrifice to them nothing that has life, because it would be impious to stain the stones with blood; but they offer wheaten cakes, and other first-fruits of their crops. The divisions of land were maintained by investing the stones which served as landmarks with a religious character: the removal of these, therefore, added the crime of sacrilege to that of dishonesty, and brought down on the heathen the curse invoked in the purer system of theology,
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Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark. Deut., xxvii., 17. To these rude stones, afterward sculptured (like the Hermæ) into the form of the god Terminus above, the rustics went in solemn procession annually, and offered the produce of the soil; flowers and fruits, and the never-failing wine, and
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Numa is said by Plutarch to have introduced the custom into Italy, and one of his anathemas is still preserved:
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Qui terminum exarasit, ipsus et boves sacrei sunto.
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Pœna sævior illis quas et Cæditius gravis invenit et Rhadamanthus. But it is very doubtful whether the same person is intended here, as also whether Fuscus is the same whose wife's drinking propensities are hinted at, xii., 45,
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Nor are their wealth and patience worn away By the slow drag-chain of the law's delay.
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is put for the sum of money that a father allows a son, or a master a slave, to have at his own disposal. But even this permission was revocable. A soldier, who was sui juris, was allowed to name an heir in the presence of three or four witnesses, and if he fell, this
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was valid. This privilege was extended by Julius Cæsar to those who were
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Liberam testandi factionem concessit, D. Julius Cæsar: sed ea concessio temporalis erat: postea vero D. Titus dedit: post hoc Domitianus: postea Divis Nerva plenissimam indulgentiam in milites contulit: eamque et Trajanus secutus est.
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Julius Cæsar granted them the free power of making a will; but this was only a temporary privilege. It was renewed by Titus and Domitian. Nerva afterward bestowed on them full powers, which were continued to them by Trajan. Vid. Ulpian, 23, § 10. The old Schol., however, says this privilege was confined to the
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to avoid the harshness of the phrase
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Tum merita æquantur _donis_ et præmia Virtus sanguine parta capit: Phaleris hic pectora fulget: Hic torque aurato circumdat bellica colla.
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Ut phaleris gauderet equus.