[41] Most scholars connect this fragment with damage to property and
conjecture that the rest of it must have been concerned with
compensation for accidental damage.

[42] That is, the animal which committed the damage may be surrendered
to the aggrieved person.

[43] From the context, wherein the unbracketed words are preserved, we
can reconstruct the sense of this statute.

[44] Not apparently into one's own fields, but to destroy these where
these were.

[45] Apparently into one's own fields by means of magical incantation.

[46] Properly the goddess of creation, occasionally (by extension) the
goddess of marriage, usually the goddess of agriculture, especially
the goddess of cultivation of grain and of growth of fruits in
general.

Ceres is represented commonly as a matronly woman, always clad in full
attire of flowing draperies, crowned either with a simple ribband or
with ears of grain holding in her hand sometimes a poppy, sometimes a
scepter, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a sheaf of grain, sometimes a
torch, sometimes a basket full of fruits or of flowers, seated or
standing in a chariot drawn by dragons or by horses.

[47] That is, the slayer must call aloud, lest he be considered a
murderer trying to hide his own act.