Note 221 — Chapter I · THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME (continued 2)
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Festus p. 318 “At homo sacer is est, quem populus judicavit ob maleficium; neque fas est eum immolari, sed qui occidit, parricidi non damnatur.” This is the meaning of sacer as employed in the leges sacratae of the early Republic (Liv. ii. 8; iii. 55).