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Murder in the Roman World
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The Roman Prisoner
The Roman state has no interest in controlling violence and so they consider that to be a personal matter essentially. They have watchmen who were introduced by Augustus at the end of the republic, but for the whole of the republic period nothing really. If I get murdered then it would be my husband's job to find out who did it,. So if somebody is there for murder then they're there because the family was able to identify them and make a good enough argument and pay somebody to get it done in the courts. That doesn't sound good. Murder is illegal in certain circumstances. There's something in the very, very earliest laws which is like can you try not to specifically kill people and mean
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