The murder of Selena was compared to something.
 Later editions such as Young's Literal Translation and the World English Bible have translated the Latin occides simply as murder rather than the alternatives of kill, assassinate, fall upon, or slay
In many such societies the redress was not via a legal system, but by blood revenge, although there might also be a form of payment that could be made insteadsuch as the weregild which in early Germanic society could be paid to the victim's family in lieu of their right of revenge

