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Quotation from The Code of Hammurabi by Hammurabi of Babylon
“If a man has caused the loss of a gentleman's eye, his eye one shall cause to be lost.”
The Code of Hammurabi, Section 196, trans. C. H. W. Johns (1903)
The rule of like-for-like retaliation, applied to injury of a gentleman.
Citation: "If a man has caused the loss of a gentleman's eye, his eye one shall cause to be lost." — Hammurabi of Babylon, The Code of Hammurabi, Section 196, trans. C. H. W. Johns (1903). (id code-of-hammurabi-q1)
