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26 Sep

Corpus Iurus Civilis, By order of Justinian I (529-534)

Corpus Iurus Civilis, By order of Justinian I (529-534)

Source(s): www.freewebs.com/vitaphone1/history/justinianc.html www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/corpus1.asp   Although Law as practiced in Rome had grown up as a type of case law, this was not the “Roman Law” known to the Medieval, …

 
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26 Sep

Gaius Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis (77)

Gaius Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis (77)

Source: ia700302.us.archive.org/29/items/plinysnaturalhis00plinrich/plinysnaturalhis00plinrich.pdf CHAPTER I. Whether the World be finite, and but one. THE World 1 , and that which, by another Name. Men have thought Good to call …

 
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07 Aug

Metamorphoses, Ovid (8AD)

Metamorphoses, Ovid (8AD)

BOOK I (Lines 163-415) Lycaon.  LYCAON CHANGED TO A WOLF When, from his throne supreme, the Son of Saturn viewed their deeds, he deeply groaned: and calling to his mind the …

 
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