[3] Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, i. 77. 8.
[4] Diogenes Laërtius, Solon, 10. Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, 25. Orosius, Historiæ, v. 16.
[5] Exodus, xxi. 15. Cf. Keil, Manual of Biblical Archæology, ii. 376.
[6] Herodotus, i. 137.
[7] Plato, Leges, ix. 869. Cf. ibid. ix. 873.
[8] Müller, Dissertations on the Eumenides of Æschylus, p. 91. Cf. Euripides, Orestes, 442 sqq.
[9] Institutiones, iv. 18. 6.
[10] Unless the descendant was in the potestas of him who committed the deed.
[11] Mommsen, Römisches Strafrecht, pp. 644, 645, 612 sq.
[12] Ibid. p. 645 sq.