If the wife of one man on account of another man has their mates (her husband and the other man’s wife) murdered, both of them shall be impaled.
Nor must it be imagined that I here commit the fallacy which the logicians call a circle; for since experience renders the majority of these effects most certain, the causes from which I deduce them do not serve so much to establish their reality as to explain their existence; but on the contrary, the reality of the causes is established by the reality of the effects.