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privatam pecuniam sustulisti; uerum quia de
templo, non furtum sed sacrilegium est. occidisti adulterum, quod lex permittit; sed quia in lupanari, caedes
est. iniuriam fecisti; sed quia magistratui, maiestatis
actio est.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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