If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.

Babylonian king, code of laws

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Context

Code of Hammurabi, Law 202.

Date / Period

c. 1754 BCE

Category

Humorous

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2767/2767-h/2767-h.htm

Verification

Unverifiable

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