If the patrician spoke in the name of religion and the laws, the plebeian replied that he did not know this hereditary religion, or the laws that flowed from it. If the patrician alleged a sacred custom, the plebeian replied in the name of the law of nature.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (1877)

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