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ing the many Roman laws yet extant, which were 
made for their fecurity (i). For as Aggenus Urbicus 
remarks, fpeaking of fuch licentious practices : Ex bis 
locis, cum Jint fuburbana , Jine ulla religionis never en- 
tia folent privati aliquid ufurpare , atque hortis f'uis 
applicare (2). What is here refered to by this writer, 
is fufficiently explained by JuTus Paulas in the fol- 
lowing pafiage : §>ui monument 0 lapidem columnamve 
J'uftulerit , J'epulchrum viola [Je videtur (3). Another 
inducement for plundering fepulchers might be the 
expectation of finding money, or other things of va- 
lue, depofited in them. Among the feveral prohibi- 
tions againft expenfive funerals, injoined by the laws 
of the Twelve tables, it is faid : Neve aurum ad - 
dito (4). This indeed was very fuitable to the fru- 
gality of thofe antient times. But that it was not 
conftantly attended to afterwards, is very evident from 
the many laws, which were made by feveral empe- 
rors in fucceding ages to prevent the burying of 
money in fepulchers > which laws would have been 
unnecefiary, if that practice had not continued. 
And it has fometimes happened, that coins, rings, 
bracelets, and other fmall ornaments, have been found 
in Roman urns, both in this and other countries. 
However, as this practice was firiCtly fpeaking illegal, 
thofe, who had a property in the fepulchers, were per- 
mited to take away the money found in them j tho 
it 
(1) D. Lib. xlvii. tit. 12. de fepul. violat. And C, Lib. IX. 
tit. 19. cod. 
(2) Ubi fupra , 
(l ) Sentent. recept. Lib. I. tit. 21. §8. 
f4j Tab. x. cap. 11. ^ 
