ocr: written law as a shield to protect individuals GOLDEN OASIS against one another and against the awesome power of the state- was a concept the Romans Caravans bearing perfumes from took from the Greeks. But it was Rome that put Arabia, spices and rare woods from this abstract notion into daily practice, and the India, and silk from China passed practice is: today honored around the world. through the colonnaded streets of A Latin inscription at Harvard Law School Palmyra in the: Syrian desert, its ruins conveys the idea precisely: "Non: subi hominesed bearing witness to one of the great sub deo ...
