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Detail from "Zaleucus" 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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