This justice subjects used generally to expect from their kings.

For this reason, lands, fields, woods, and pastures were reserved as the property of kings, and cultivated for them, without any labor on their part, in order that no anxiety on account of their personal interests might distract their attention from the welfare of the State.

Nor was any private man allowed to be the judge or arbitrator in any suit; but all disputes were terminated by the royal sentence.
And of all our Roman monarchs, Numa appears to me to have best preserved this ancient custom of the kings of Greece.

For the others, though they also discharged this duty, were for the main part employed in conducting military enterprises, and in attending to those rights which belonged to war.

But the long peace of Numa's reign was the mother of law and religion in this city.