[Footnote 19: The tenth table, de modo sepulturae, was
borrowed from Solon, (Cicero de Legibus, ii. 23 - 26:) the
furtem per lancem et licium conceptum, is derived by
Heineccius from the manners of Athens, (Antiquitat. Rom.
tom. ii. p. 167 - 175.) The right of killing a nocturnal
thief was declared by Moses, Solon, and the Decemvirs,
(Exodus xxii. 3. Demosthenes contra Timocratem, tom. i. p.
736, edit. Reiske. Macrob. Saturnalia, l. i. c. 4. Collatio
Legum Mosaicarum et Romanatum, tit, vii. No. i. p. 218,
edit. Cannegieter.).]