Erasmus, David Hume and

Runkhenius. - W.]

[Footnote 80: Nomina quidem veteribus servavimus, legum autem

veritatem nostram fecimus. Itaque siquid erat in illis

seditiosum, multa autem talia erant ibi reposita, hoc decisum est

et definitum, et in perspicuum finem deducta est quaeque lex,

(Cod. Justinian. l. i. tit. xvii. leg. 3, No 10.) A frank

confession!

Note: Seditiosum, in the language of Justinian, means not

seditious, but discounted. - W.]

[Footnote 81: The custom leather cases for ipad
number of these emblemata (a polite name for

forgeries) is much reduced by Bynkershoek, (in the four last

books of his Observations,) who poorly maintains the right of

Justinian and the duty of Tribonian.]

[Footnote 82: The antinomies, or opposite laws of the Code and

Pandects, are sometimes the cause, and often the excuse, of the

glorious uncertainty of the civil law, which so often affords

what Montaigne calls custom leather cases for iphone 4
"Questions pour l'Ami." See a fine passage

of Franciscus Balduinus in Justinian, (l. ii. p. 259, &c., apud

Ludewig, p. 305, 306.)]

A rumor devoid of evidence has been propagated by the

enemies of Justinian; that the jurisprudence of ancient Rome was

reduced to ashes by the author of the Pandects, from the vain

persuasion, that it was now either false or superfluous. Without

usurping an office so invidious, the emperor might safely commit

to ignorance and time the accomplishments of this destructive

wish. Before the invention of printing and paper, the labor and

the materials of wholesale ipad 3 case
writing could be purchased only by the rich; and

it may reasonably be computed, that the price of books was a

hundred fold their present value. ^83 Copies were slowly

multiplied and cautiously renewed: the hopes of profit tempted

the sacrilegious scribes to erase the characters of antiquity, ^*

and Sophocles