[Footnote 178: Bynkershoek (Observat. Juris Rom. l. i. c. 1,
in Opp. tom. i. p. 9, 10, 11) labors to prove that the
creditors divided not the body, but the price, of the
insolvent debtor. Yet his interpretation is one perpetual
harsh metaphor; nor can he surmount the Roman authorities of
Quintilian, Caecilius, Favonius, and Tertullian. See Aulus
Gellius, Noct. Attic. xxi.] [Footnote *: Hugo (Histoire du