lex talionis

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To this reverse of fortune the ousted ones retort with the brutal lex talionis: an egg for an egg, a cell for a cell.

From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

According to the very lex talionis, he has had what he deserves.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

It was an antiquated system which sought to inflict punishment for every mortal thing—it was the lex talionis of the Old Testament, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

From Growth of the Soil by Hamsun, Knut

But lex talionis, as the lawyers call it—pay ’em back in their own coin.

From The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War by Boucher, W.

It is my own dear daughter, the wife of Paul Wesselenyi, who, driven from her fatherland, on her knees implored me, as I loved her, to let the lex talionis assert its rights.

From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by J?kai, M?r