200 Italian literature. ^ug. 15. 



this Hiall be received into Arcadia, fhall be obliged, 

 as by oath, f-i the obeuience of these laws *. 

 "' he general ajsemhly agreed. 



In the third year of the six hundred and eighteenth 

 olympiad ; the second year of the second olympiad 

 from the restoration of Arcadia, a joyful day for 

 everf . 



Before the afsembly retired they wisely decreed, 

 to dedicate and consecrate their laws to the pope as 

 prince ot the country who was then pope Innocent xii. 

 By decree of the general afsembly. 



To Innocent xii. most good, and most high 

 pontif, moderator of the world, defender of divine 

 and human rights, Arcadia dedicates and consecrates 

 her laws J. 



Sanctio, 

 *Siquls aSversus h. 1. facit, faxit, /ecerit; quique facit, faxit, feceritve 

 <luo minus q'lis secundum h. 1. taceret, tecifsetve: facturusve siet confes- 

 tim exarcas esto, ejusque nomen coram colI?gio per custodem induciror. 



Si quid in his legibus obscurum perplexumve siet, sive comprehensum 

 non siet, communi Arcadum, consultis peritioribus inter pasrorfs, mo'e 

 majorum, interpretandi, sapplendique jus es'o; quodque decretum judi- 

 catumve siet penes custodem adservator; in leg m tabulas ne redigitor. 

 Nulli novas legrs ferre fas esto. 



Aiphesiboeus Caryus cust( s coe'ur-i universum ita n^gavit. Velitis 

 jubfatis Arcades ut, quse in hisleg'bus ad nostri communis regimen com- 

 prehensa prescriptaque sunt, authoritate jufsuque communi justa rata 

 firma perpetuo sient. lisdemque pastores ^os hac omi es pevpetuo te- 

 neantur, ut quicumque Arca.icum deinceps nomen adsumserit obstrictui 

 H. L. veluti Sacramento siet. 



CdETWS UNIVEPSUS SCIVJT. 



•}■ Olympiad. Dcxviii. inn. iii. ab A. I. olympiad ii. ann. ii. die per« 

 petilo laeta. 



Ex CCETUS UNIVERSI CC.-SULTO. 



J Innocentio xu. p<intificl oprimo rrrximo moderatori orbis terrarum, 

 diviai, human! que juris tutelae suas Arcadia leges dicat consecralque. 



