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25All his laws were to have force for a hundred years, and they were written on “axones,” or wooden tablets, which revolved with the oblong frames containing them. Slight remnants of these were still preserved in the Prytaneium when I was at Athens, and they were called, according to Aristotle,[38] “kyrbeis.” Cratinus, also, the comic poet, somewhere says:—
“By Solon, and by Draco too I make mine oath,
Whose kyrbeis now are used to parch our barleycorns.”[39]
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