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Associate Professor Betsy Baker for comments on previous drafts, and Laura Gillen for her editing and typing. This paper is part of two parallel projects which I have undertaken in the past decade. The first is the editing of a series of volumes seeking to explore the relevance of ancient authors to modem law. See generally ARISTOTLE AND MODERN LAW (Richard 0. Brooks & James Bernard Murphy eds., Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2003; PLATO AND MODERN LAW (Richard 0. Brooks eds., 2007); CICERO AND MODERN LAW (Richard 0. Brooks ed., Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2009). The last book offers the material for my conclusions on Cicero in this article. James Murphy and I are presently engaged in preparation of a volume titled St. Augustine and Modem Law. The second project is a series of articles on the contributions which these authors make to a new understanding of modem comparative law. The previous articles include: