Word addition 4 (lex talionis )

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lex talionis (leks tal-ee-O-nis) noun The law of retaliation that the punishment should correspond to the crime, as an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Also called talion. [From Latin, lex (law) + talionis (retaliation).] "We are entreated to turn the other cheek and do unto others as we would have them do unto us, yet simultaneously understand lex talionis and the quotidian mayhem depicted on television, in fact and fiction." Shelley Neiderbach; Seeing Can Free Victims From Thirst for Revenge;