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"Zaleucus" (see detail) work of the Atelier de Jean
Goujon c. 1560-1564 - Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
Zaleucus was a freed slave and early lawgiver. The penalty for
his son was to be blinded. His fatherly gesture was to enucleate
one of his own eyes to spare one of his son's eyes.
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