Punishment is only justified morally if the person understands that what was done was wrong and accepts the judgment of society as part of the process of expiation and rehabilitation.
This combining of penance with legal procedure appears to make the pryacitta more effective as penance ending in death can result in full expiation even from intentional sins.
Ostensibly with a view to the expiation of his father's crime, he professed himself anxious to venture his life and his fortune for his majesty's restoration.
The tragic figure represents the expiation of original sin, of the original and eternal sin of him and all his soci malorum, the sin of having been born.
Some agricultural tasks not otherwise permitted could be carried out if an expiation were made in advance "(piaculum)", usually the sacrifice of a puppy.
