lex talionis
Example Sentences
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The lex talionis was the custom of the hour.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid
Neither will I presume to suggest the operation of any lex talionis in respect of cruelty.
From Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald
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 W. Boucher
On their side the lex talionis was practised with a loose hand; so loose that it soon became necessary to restrain it; and they were no longer allowed to go scouting on their own account.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
It is state-law; alike self-help, blood-feud, marriage by capture, are absent; though family solidarity, district responsibility, ordeal, the lex talionis, are primitive features that remain.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
