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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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¶Of murder of parents or kinsfolks called Paricidium.
¶Of murther of parentes or kinsfolkes called Paricidium.
Lastly, which was most heinous of all,1 he polluteth himself with the murder of his brethren: of which wicked crime there are many things written in the civile laws ad I. Corneliam de Parricidiis. And as far as I can gather out of the laws & Histories, in the old time the name of that crime was given unto those which murdered their parents, grandfathers, great grandfathers &c. unto those also which murdered their sons, nephews, and sons in the .iiii. degree &c. But afterward Pompeius extended the signification thereof farther, & they were called Parricidae which slew their brethren, son in laws, daughter in laws, father in laws, or mothers in laws, and such other.2 Although there was an old law, and given by Numa Pompilius: He that wittingly ⟨image 165⟩bringeth a man to death, let him be taken for a parricide. And also Augustine in his 3.3 book de Civitate dei the 6. chap. counted Romulus guilty of Parricidium, because he slew his brother. And there he derideth the Ethnics, which affirmed that their gods suffered Troy to be destroyed, because they would take vengeance of the adultery of Paris. But how (sayeth he) were they favourable unto Rome, when as the builder thereof committed straight way at the beginning parricidium? But the same Augustine in his book de Patientia (which yet is supposed to be none of his) in the 13. chap. appointeth a certain latitude or degrees between Parricides: for (as he saith) he sinneth more heinously which killeth his parents or children, then he which murdereth his brethren. And he which slayeth his brethren, offendeth more, then he which destroyeth those which are farther of a kin. And the wicked crime of slaying parents or grandfathers, seemed to be so horrible, that at Rome for the space of 600. years, from the building of the City it was not committed.