[Footnote 84: Statuta almoe Urbis Romoe Auctoritate S. D. N.
Gregorii XIII Pont. Max. a Senatu Populoque Rom. reformata
et edita. Romoe, 1580, in folio. The obsolete, repugnant
statutes of antiquity were confounded in five books, and
Lucas Paetus, a lawyer and antiquarian, was appointed to act
as the modern Tribonian. Yet I regret the old code, with
the rugged crust of freedom and barbarism.]