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The vices of the children bring hatred on
their parents; founders of cities are detested for
concentrating a race which is a curse to others, as
for example the founder of the Jewish superstition;1 the laws of Gracchus are hated, and we
abhor any loathsome example of vice that has been
handed down to posterity, such as the criminal form of
lust which a Persian is said to have been the first to
practise on a woman of Samos.
1 Moses.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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