(M172) § 194. If a man has given his son to a wet-nurse to suckle, and
that son has died in the hands of the nurse, and the nurse, without
consent of the child’s father or mother, has nursed another child, they
shall prosecute her; because she has nursed another child, without consent
of the father or mother, her breasts shall be cut off.
(M173) § 195. If a son has struck his father, his hands shall be cut off.
(M174) § 196. If a man has knocked out the eye of a patrician, his eye
shall be knocked out.
§ 197. If he has broken the limb of a patrician, his limb shall be broken.
§ 198. If he has knocked out the eye of a plebeian or has broken the limb
of a plebeian, he shall pay one mina of silver.
§ 199. If he has knocked out the eye of a patrician’s servant, or broken
the limb of a patrician’s servant, he shall pay half his value.
§ 200. If a patrician has knocked out the tooth of a man that is his
equal, his tooth shall be knocked out.
§ 201. If he has knocked out the tooth of a plebeian, he shall pay
one-third of a mina of silver.
(M175) § 202. If a man has smitten the privates of a man, higher in rank
than he, he shall be scourged with sixty blows of an ox-hide scourge, in
the assembly.
§ 203. If a man has smitten the privates of a patrician of his own rank,
he shall pay one mina of silver.
§ 204. If a plebeian has smitten the privates of a plebeian, he shall pay
ten shekels of silver.
§ 205. If the slave of anyone has smitten the privates of a free-born man,
his ear shall be cut off.
(M176) § 206. If a man has struck another in a quarrel, and caused him a
permanent injury, that man shall swear, “I struck him without malice,” and
shall pay the doctor.
§ 207. If he has died of his blows, [the man] shall swear [similarly], and
pay one-half a mina of silver; or,
§ 208. If [the deceased] was a plebeian, he shall pay one-third of a mina
of silver.
(M177) § 209. If a man has struck a free woman with child, and has caused
her to miscarry, he shall pay ten shekels for her miscarriage.
§ 210. If that woman die, his daughter shall be killed.
§ 211. If it be the daughter of a plebeian, that has miscarried through
his blows, he shall pay five shekels of silver.
§ 212. If that woman die, he shall pay half a mina of silver.
§ 213. If he has struck a man’s maid and caused her to miscarry, he shall
pay two shekels of silver.
§ 214. If that woman die, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.
(M178) § 215. If a surgeon has operated with the bronze lancet on a
patrician for a serious injury, and has cured him, or has removed with a
bronze lancet a cataract for a patrician, and has cured his eye, he shall
take ten shekels of silver.
§ 216. If it be plebeian, he shall take five shekels of silver.
§ 217. If it be a man’s slave, the owner of the slave shall give two
shekels of silver to the surgeon.
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