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"I will relate," says he, "the case of a man, who, belonging to

the most powerful family in the city, chose the country for his

residence; and there, assuring himself of impunity by the force

of crime, he set at nought the law and the magistrates, the king

and the nobles. Placed on the extreme confines of the state, he

led an independent life; he offered an asylum to the outlaw; he

was outlawed himself, and then absolved from the sentence which

had led--" We will hereafter quote from this author other

passages, which will confirm the history we are about to relate.