Note 211 — Chapter I · THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME (continued 2)
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Supplicium, from sub-placo, death as a sin-offering (Festus p. 308 “supplicia ... sacrificia a supplicando”); castigatio (“castum agere”) purification through atonement. On the other hand poena, multa, talio bear witness to a theory of compensation and private vengeance. See Rein Criminalrecht p. 39.