From paganism in its age of decay, the
poet has taken the only grand thing of the era which re-
lieved the vices of the Cjesars : I mean the great spirit of
legislation which, under the most of reigns, col-
lected the statutes of the future code, of the Roman law,
for which so glorious a future was reserved.
poet has taken the only grand thing of the era which re-
lieved the vices of the Cjesars : I mean the great spirit of
legislation which, under the most of reigns, col-
lected the statutes of the future code, of the Roman law,
for which so glorious a future was reserved.
Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy
