[GAIUS libro quarto ad legem duodecim tabularum. ] §10.1.13.prSciendum est in actione finium regundorum illud obseruandum esse, quod ad exemplum quodammodo eius legis scriptum est, quam Athenis Solonem dicitur tulisse: nam illic ita est: ἐὰν τις αἱμασιὰν παρ᾽ ἀλλοτρίῳ χωρίῳ ὀρυγῃ, τὸν ὅρον μὴ παραβαίνειν· ἐὰν τειχίον, πόδα ἀπολείπειν· ἐὰν δὲ οἴκημα, δύο πόδας. ἐὰν δὲ τάφον ἢ βόθρον ὀρύττῃ, ὅσον τὸ βάθος ᾖ, τοσοῦτον ἀπολείπειν· ἐὰν δὲ φρέαρ, ὀργυιάν. ἐλαίαν δὲ καὶ συκῆν ἐννέα πόδας ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀλλοτρίου φυτεύειν, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα δένδρα πέντε πόδας.
[GAIUS, Book IV on the Law of the Twelve Tables.] It must be known that in the action for regulating boundaries, that rule must be observed which was written in a manner after the model of the law which Solon is said to have proposed at Athens; for there it is as follows: "If anyone digs a hedge-ditch next to another's land, he shall not cross the boundary; if he builds a wall, he must leave one foot; if a building, two feet; if he digs a grave or a pit, he must leave as much space as the depth may be; if a well, a fathom; and he must plant an olive tree and a fig tree nine feet away from another's property, and other trees five feet."