Amelu sentence example
amelu
- The Code contemplates the whole population as falling into three classes, the amelu, the muskinu and the ardu.
- The amelu was a patrician, the man of family, whose birth, marriage and death were registered, of ancestral estates and full civil rights.
- The service was usually discharged by slaves and serfs, but the amelu (and perhaps the muskinu) went to war.
- Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, limb for limb was the penalty for assault upon an amelu.
- Sixty strokes of an ox-hide scourge were awarded for a brutal assault on a superior, both being amelu.Advertisement
- He could acquire his freedom by purchase from his master, or might be freed and dedicated to a temple, or even adopted, when he became an amelu and not a muskinu.