The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.
-- Henry James Sumner Maine
   
Henry James Sumner Maine   Name:
Henry James Sumner Maine
Type:
Historian
Nationality:
English
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