[Footnote 85: Pomponius (Pandect. l. i. tit. ii. leg. 2)
observes, that of the three founders of the civil law,
Mucius, Brutus, and Manilius, extant volumina, scripta
Manilii monumenta; that of some old republican lawyers, haec
versantur eorum scripta inter manus hominum. Eight of the
Augustan sages were reduced to a compendium: of Cascellius,
scripta non extant sed unus liber, &c.; of Trebatius, minus
frequentatur; of Tubero, libri parum grati sunt. Many
quotations in the Pandects are derived from books which
Tribonian never saw; and in the long period from the viith
to the xiiith century of Rome, the apparent reading of the
moderns successively depends on the knowledge and veracity
of their predecessors.]