Latin+I+History

=Highlights from the XII Tabulae - Latin I history =

If a slave commits a theft without his master's knowledge, the slave pays the penalty. If someone is slain committing a theft at night, he is legally slain. Putting an unconvicted man to death is forbidden. If a man is summoned before a magistrate, he must go. If he does not go willingly, the summoner may use force. Marriages may not take place between Plebs and Patres. Females remain in guardianship (to some male � husband or blood relative) even when they are adult. If you are guilty of lying to the court you may be hurled from the Tarpeian rock. No night meetings in the city. If you don't pay a debt in thirty days, the debt-holder may seize you and imprison you, bind you and feed you minimum a pound of meal a day. A corpse may not be buried within the city's walls. A dreadfully deformed child shall be quickly killed. If your witness does not come to court when summoned by the judge, you may call outside his house every third day. If the road is not properly taken care of, you may drive where you like.

You can gather fruit from a neighbor's tree if the fruit falls onto your land. Carthaginian Wars - from 242 - 202 BCE. In the first, Hannibal attacks Italy from Africa on elephants and is forced to go home without having sacked Roma. After that, Scipio Africanus was chosen to lead the Romans against Hannibal; they finally won the battle of Zama in 202 and destroyed Carthage.