Note 082
From Chapter 70 of the Decline & Fall


See, in the statutes of Rome, the senator and three judges, (l. i. c. 3 - 14), the conservators (l. i. c.15, 16, 17, l. iii. c. 4), the caporioni (l. i. c. 18, l. iii. c. 8), the secret council (l. iii. c. 2), the common council, (l. iii. c. 3). The title of feuds, defiances, acts of violence, etc., is spread through many a chapter (c. 14 - 40) of the second book.

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