[1091] Diogen. Laert. i. § 55, and the observation of Menage. This
law is praised by Plato in Menexenus, and by Demosthenes, adversus
Macartatum.
[1092] Heraclides de Politiis, added to the addition of Aristot.
Politic. Heinsii, Lugd. Bat. 1621, 8vo, p. 1004.
[1093] Mention is made of them several times in the Roman code of laws,
L. 8, § 9, et § 24, D. de Transact. L. pen. § 1, D. ad leg. Falcid. See
also Ælii Spart. Vita Adriani, c. 7.--Æl. Capitolin. Vita Antonini.
P. cap. 8.--Vita Pertin. c. 9, p. 555.--Æl. Lamprid. Vita Alexandri
Severi, c. 44, p. 995.
[1094] This city was situated at no great distance from Piacenza
(Placentia). It is mentioned by Horace, Pliny and Phlego Trallianus de
Longævis, i. p. 114. See Cluverii Ital. p. 1259.
[1095] This remarkable inscription was first printed at Florence in
1749, by itself, with the title Exemplar Tabulæ Trajanæ pro Pueris et
Puellis Alimentariis Reip. Veleiatium. Secondly, in Museum Veronense,
Veronæ, 1749, fol., to which some explanations are added. Thirdly, in
Histoire de la Jurisprudence Romaine, par A. Terrasson. Paris, 1750,
fol. in the Appendix, pp. 27-43.
[1096] Lib. iv. p. 228.
[1097] See the proofs quoted by Brisson, under the word _Menstruum_.
[1098] Digest, 34, tit. 1. 14.
[1099] “Crescerent de tuo qui crescerent tibi, alimentisque tuis ad
stipendia tua pervenirent.”
[1100] Plin. Epist. i. 8, 10, and vii. 18. Gruteri Inscript. p.
MXXVIII. n. 5.
[1101] Capitolin. cap. 8.
[1102] Ib. cap. 26.
[1103] Lamprid. cap. 57.
[1104] Ælian. Spartian. cap. 1. p. 574.
[1105] Capitolin. cap. 2, p. 532; and cap. 4, p. 537.
[1106] Zonaras in the Life of that Emperor. Hist. August.