On Nov 19, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>> What specific systems of law and punishment do you have in mind here?
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> Well, you could kick them off the island.
Roman Republican law (for citizens) involved neither imprisonment nor (except for treason) the death penalty. Fines were the standard punishment and exile the most severe form. Cicero was driven from Rome under threat of exile because he had executed Roman citizens.
Shane Mage "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64