[Footnote 24: De principiis juris, et quibus modis ad hanc
multitudinem infinitam ac varietatem legum perventum sit
altius disseram, (Tacit. Annal. iii. 25.) This deep
disquisition fills only two pages, but they are the pages of
Tacitus. With equal sense, but with less energy, Livy (iii.
34) had complained, in hoc immenso aliarum super alias
acervatarum legum cumulo, &c.]