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Twelve Tables

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The earliest code of Roman law, compiled by the Decemviri, and cut on twelve bronze tables or tablets (Livy, iii. 57; Diodorus, xii. 56.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Twelfth (The)
Twelfth Cake
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Twelve
Twelve Tables
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