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XXV. He ordered that all his laws should remain in force for a hundred years, and he wrote them upon triangular wooden tablets, which revolved upon an axis in oblong recesses, some small remains of which have been preserved in the prytaneum down to the present day. These, we are told by Aristotle, were called Kurbeis. The comic poet Kratinus also says,
"By Solon and by Draco, mighty legislators once, Whose tablets light the fire now to warm a dish of pulse." Some say that the term Kurbeis is only applied to those on which are written the laws which regulate religious matters.
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