[Laws by Plato]@TWC D-Link bookLaws BOOK IX 20/40
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.
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