...The two great codifications of law undertaken in the Christianity of late ancient times are often presented as novel interventions in the history of religion. As the first such codification since the Twelve Tables a thousand years before, the Theodosian Code did more than advertise the maturation...

...Rome's Law of the Twelve Tables is to be viewed as an important step in state formation. The trial of K. Quinctius is most likely fictitious and has probably been historicized from a document that specified the legal procedure of taking vadimonium for tribunician prosecutions...