75. Personal satire was condemned by the laws of the twelve
tables:-
Si mala condiderit in quem quis carmina, jus est,
Judiciumque ___
Horat. Sat. ii. 1, 82.
Julian (in Misopogon, p. 337) owns himself subject to the
law; and the Abbe de la Bleterie (Hist. de Jovien, tom. ii.
p. 92) has eagerly embraced a declaration so agreeable to
his own system, and indeed to the true spirit of the
Imperial constitution.