Livy

” a sentiment, with which Livy accords, in naming “peace, when coupled with servitude, a far more grievous calamity, than all the horrors of war.

The law of the Twelve Tables, as the ‘body of the whole of Roman law’ (‘corpus omnis Romani juris’) and the ‘fountain of all public and private law’ (‘fons omnis publici privatique juris’)—designations both of which are applied to it by Livy—contained ordinances on all the three branches of Jus, civil.

let someone else praise that loss as the noblest monument of royal opulence—as Livy does, who says it was an outstanding work of the elegance and care of kings.