in a moment of anger repeats the deed, let him be an
exile, and return no more; or if he returns, let him
suffer as the stranger was to suffer in a similar
case. He who kills his own slave shall undergo
a purification, but if he kills the slave of another
in anger, he shall pay twice the amount of the loss
to his owner. And if any homicide is disobedient
to the law, and without purification pollutes the
agora, or the games, or the temples, he who pleases
may bring to trial the next of kin to the dead man
for permitting him, and the murderer with him, and
may compel the one to exact and the other to suffer
a double amount of fines and purifications; and the
accuser shall himself receive the fine in accordance
with the law. If a slave in a fit of passion
kills his master, the kindred of the deceased man
may do with the murderer (provided only they do not
spare his life) whatever they please, and they will
be pure; or if he kills a freeman, who is not his
master, the owner shall give up the slave to the relatives
of the deceased, and they shall be under an obligation
to put him to death, but this may be done in any manner
which they please. And if (which is a rare occurrence,
but does sometimes happen) a father or a mother in
a moment of passion slays a son or daughter by blows,
or some other violence, the slayer shall undergo the
same purification as in other cases, and be exiled
during three years; but when the exile returns the
wife shall separate from the husband, and the husband
from the wife, and they shall never afterwards beget
children together, or live under the same roof, or
partake of the same sacred rites with those whom they
have deprived of a child or of a brother. And
he who is impious and disobedient in such a case shall
be brought to trial for impiety by any one who pleases.
If in a fit of anger a husband kills his wedded wife,
or the wife her husband, the slayer shall undergo
the same purification, and the term of exile shall
be three years. And when he who has committed
any such crime returns, let him have no communication
in sacred rites with his children, neither let him
sit at the same table with them, and the father or
son who disobeys shall be liable to be brought to trial
for impiety by any one who pleases. If a brother
or a sister in a fit of passion kills a brother or
a sister, they shall undergo purification and exile,
as was the case with parents who killed their offspring:
they shall not come under the same roof, or share
in the sacred rites of those whom they have deprived
of their brethren, or of their children. And he
who is disobedient shall be justly liable to the law
concerning impiety, which relates to these matters.
If any one is so violent in his passion against his
parents, that in the madness of his anger he dares
to kill one of them, if the murdered person before
dying freely forgives the murderer, let him undergo
the purification which is assigned to those who have
been guilty of involuntary homicide, and do as they