[Footnote 177: Horace talks of the formidine fustis, (l. ii.
epist. ii. 154,) but Cicero (de Republica, l. iv. apud
Augustin. de Civitat. Dei, ix. 6, in Fragment. Philosoph.
tom. iii. p. 393, edit. Olivet) affirms that the decemvirs
made libels a capital offence: cum perpaucas res capite
sanxisent - perpaucus!]