CHAPTER 47. _Twelve Tables._ In this, the earliest Roman code,

punishment was imposed on any person _qui fruges excantassit_, or _qui

malum carmen incantassit_. Pliny, N.H. xxviii. 2. 17.

_Quindecimvirs._ The _quindecimviri sacris faciundis_ were priests of

Apollo and had charge of the Sibylline books.