The corpus record — Latin

talio

talio · f

a punishment similar and equal to the injury sustained

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Where it lives

Noctes Atticae 23 · 2.06/10k
Adversus Marcionem 9 · 1.09/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

tālĭo — Lewis & Short

tālĭo, ōnis, f. (

I masc., Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 16) [talis]; in jurid. lang., a punishment similar and equal to the injury sustained, like for like, retaliation in kind: talionis mentionem fieri in XII. ait Verrius hoc modo: si membrum rupit, ni cum eo pacit, talio esto, neque id, quid significet, indicat, puto, quia notum est. Permittit enim lex parem vindictam, Fest. p. 363 Müll.; Cato ap. Prisc. p. 710 P.; Gell. 20, 1, 33 sq.; 20, 1, 38; Cic. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 21, 11; Plin. 7, 54, 55, § 187; Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 16: corrumpit sine talione caelebs, i. e. with impunity, Mart. 12, 63, 10.

In the wild

talionis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.16
talionem Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 3.1
talionem Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 20.1.36
talionum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 20.1.18
talionis Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 20.1.18
talio Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 10.4.9

6 of 44 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.