Note 8 — Chapter XX · BLOOD-REVENGE AND COMPENSATION—THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH
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Idem, Græco-italische Rechtsgeschichte, § 50 sq., especially pp. 375, 381. In Rome blood-revenge appears to have been very early suppressed. There is an echo of it in certain legends, but even in them it is represented as objectionable (Mommsen, History of Rome, i. 190).