72. In the heroic times of Greece, the guilt of murder was
expiated by a pecuniary satisfaction to the family of the
deceased (Feithius Antiquitat. Homer. l. ii. c. 8).
Heineccius, in his preface to the Elements of Germanic Law,
favourably suggests that at Rome and Athens homicide was
only punished with exile. It is true; but exile was a
'capital' punishment for a citizen of Rome or Athens.