It is accordingly a significant fact that the word reappears in Sicilian Greek as -- moiton--; and with this is to be connected the reappearance of the Latin -carcer- in the Sicilian -- karkaron--.

Since it is philologically certain that both words were originally Latin, their occurrence in the local dialect of Sicily becomes an important testimony to the frequency of the dealings of Latin traders in the island, which led to their borrowing money there and becoming liable to that imprisonment for debt, which was everywhere in the earlier systems of law the consequence of the non-repayment of a loan.

Conversely, the name of the Syracusan prison, "stone-quarries" or -- latomiai--, was transferred at an early period to the enlarged Roman state-prison, the -lautumiae-.
Character of the Roman Law We have derived our outline of these institutions mainly from the earliest record of the Roman common law prepared about half a century after the abolition of the monarchy; and their existence in the regal period, while doubtful perhaps as to particular points of detail, cannot be doubted in the main.

Surveying them as a whole, we recognize the law of a far-advanced agricultural and mercantile city, marked alike by its liberality and its consistency.

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