Insults (Title 30)
from: From Roman to Merovingian Gaul, A Reader- edited by Alexander Murray;
ISBN 1551111020
- If someone calls another a queer, let the offender be judged liable for
15 solidi.
- If someone declares another to be full of shit, let the offender be
judged liable for 120 denarii, which amounts to 3 solidi.
- If someone, man or woman, declares another free woman to be a whore and
cannot prove it, let the offender be judged liable for 1800 denarii, which
amounts to 45 solidi.
- If someone declares another to be a fox, let the offender be judged
liable for 3 solidi.
- If someone declares another to be a hare, let the offender be judged
liable for 120 denarii, which amounts to 3 solidi.
- If someone charges another with throwing away his shield and cannot prove
it, let the offender be judged liable for 120 denarii, which amounts to 3
solidi.
- If someone declares another to be an informer or calumniator and cannot
prove it, let the offender be judged liable for 600 denarii, which amounts
to 15 solidi.
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