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Any person convicted of preferring charges against another person which he cannot substantiate shall be put to death.

V. Any judge conducting a trial and rendering a written decision therein shall receive 12 fold the punishment administered by reason of his decision if the decision is subsequently proved to be erroneous.

Question 1. How might number V have been a deterrent?

Question 2. In the number I listed above, what does "prefer" mean?

Question 3. In the number I listed above, what does the "substantiate" mean?

Question 4. In the number I listed above, what does the "erroneous" mean?

Question 5. In number XIV listed above, what does the "adjudge" mean?

Question 6. What appears to have been the major pecuniary function of Harmoni?

Question 7. What is the meaning of: "there was not found a balance against me"?

Question 8. What is the meaning of "thence"?

Question 9. What did the Egyptians do with their dead?

Question 10. What does "penetralia" mean?

Question 11. What duties does the author attribute to the women of Egypt?

Question 12. What does the "knead" mean?

Question 13. What does the author say about the lettering of the ancient Egyptians?

Question 14. Do the author's remarks suggest that the ancient Egyptians were aware of their great antiquity? Explain.

Question 15. What does Pomponius Mela's description suggest about the astronomical knowledge of the ancient Egyptians?

Question 16. This description of Syria was available in the early first century in the Roman Empire.
To whom might such a description have been useful? In other words, for what purpose might
this description has been used?

Question 17. How does the author describe Babylon?

Question 18. To which people does the author attribute the word "Gaza"?

Question 19. Define "cremate."

Question 20. Define "besmear."