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saepissime autem,
quid sit proprium cuiusque, quaeritur: ut, si per
ἐτυμολογίαν dicatur, tyrannicidae proprium est tyrannum, occidere, negemus; non enim, si traditum sibi
eum carnifex occiderit, tyrannicida dicatur, nec si
imprudens vel invitus.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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