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prettygoodwordtalionic (tah-lee-ON-ik) - adj., pertaining to revenge in kind, retaliatory.
The lex talionis is punishment that corresponding in kind to the crime, as in an eye for an eye or a death for a death. Surprisingly, the term didn't come into English directly from legal Latin, but through Anglo-Norman, from Latin talionis, genitive of talis, such -- so the "law of such". So to speak.
---L.
The lex talionis is punishment that corresponding in kind to the crime, as in an eye for an eye or a death for a death. Surprisingly, the term didn't come into English directly from legal Latin, but through Anglo-Norman, from Latin talionis, genitive of talis, such -- so the "law of such". So to speak.
---L.
