[Footnote 113: The opinion of the lawyers, and the
discretion of the magistrates, had introduced, in the time
of Tacitus, some legal restraints, which might support his
contrast of the boni mores of the Germans to the bonae leges
alibi - that is to say, at Rome, (de Moribus Germanorum, c.
19.) Tertullian (ad Nationes, l. i. c. 15) refutes his own
charges, and those of his brethren, against the heathen
jurisprudence.]