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The Twelve Tables (ca. 450 B.C.E.) By tradition, Roman laws were not written down and were only interpreted by the patricians (upper-class men) and the priests. In 451 B.C.E., a panel of ten men was appointed to inscribe the laws on stone, possibly to placate plebeian (lower-class) hostility to arbitrary justice. The panel initially produced […]