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3. A judge (_iudex_) or an arbitrator (_arbiter_) legally (_iure_)appointed, who has been convicted of receiving money for declaring adecision, shall be punished capitally (_capite_). 4. [Provisions pertaining to] the investigators of murder (_quaestorparricidii_) [appointed to have charge over capital cases]. 5. Whoever shall have incited a public enemy (_hostis_) or whoevershall have delivered a citizen (_civis_) to a public enemy shall bepunished capitally (_capite_). 6. It is forbidden to p...ut to death . .. Unconvicted any one whomsoever. TABLE X. SACRED LAW 1. A dead person shall not be buried or burned in the city. [59] 2. More than this shall not be done. The funeral pyre (_rogum_) shallnot be smoothed with the axe. [60] 3. [Expenses of a funeral shall be limited to] three [mournerswearing] veils and one [mourner wearing] small purple tunic and tenflute-players. 4. Women shall not tear their cheeks or have a _lessus_ (sorrowfuloutcry)[61] on account of the funeral. 5. The bones of a dead person shall not be collected that one may makea funeral afterward.
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