Abstract

[A lex regia on the verberatio parentis. The interpretative contribution of the literary sources]. Festo’s work (De verborum significatu) refers, under the voice plorare, to the content of a lex regia at the basis of which the king Servio Tullio would have punished with the sacertas, following the parent’s ploratio, the guy guilty of having lashed the parent. The truth about this disposition, considered its extreme dating, is confirmed by numerous textual references, conserved in literary sources, that allow, in some cases, the clarification of interpretative doubts on the constitutive elements of the criminal case in point.