lex talionis

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With the latter, the lex talionis—the law of retaliation—governs the basic rules of “eye for an eye” justice.

From Newsweek

A curious note appears on this subject in Lex Talionis.

From Project Gutenberg

The lex talionis is an excellent test.

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And in the natural world of ethics—where true moral life has not yet arisen—this is mere retaliation or the lex talionis;—the beginning of an endless series of vengeance and counter-vengeance, the blood-feud.

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And, depend upon it, though the elasticity of youthful constitutions may, for a time, resist the pernicious effects of a violation of these laws, the hour will assuredly come, sooner or later, to all, when the lex talionis will be felt in resistless power.

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