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The common example of this, is that noted passage in Cicero which every schoolboy knows: "Facinus est vincire civem Romanum; scelus verberare, prope parricidium, necare; quid dicam in crucem tollere."
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Certe edepol equidem te civem sine mala omni malitia semper sum arbitratus et nunc arbitror.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Lines such as (261) -- si pro me patriam ferro flammisque petistis, nunc pugnate truces gladiosque exsolvite culpa. nulla manus belli mutato iudice pura est. non mihi res agitur, sed vos ut libera sitis turba precor, gentes ut ius habeatis in omnes. ipse ego privatae cupidus me reddere vitae plebeiaque toga modicum compomere civem, omnia dum vobis liceant, nihil esse recuso. invidia regnate mea;
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Batavorum antiqua stirpe ortus, sicut et nomen ipsius inclitum indicat, Americanae patriae germanum civem sese praestitit; in qua nemo sane laudem maiorem Reipublicae suae suorum iudicio contulisse creditur.
African and European Addresses Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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'Quamvis digressu veteris confusus amici, Laudo tamen vacuis quod sedem figere Cumis Destinet, atque unum civem donare Sibyllae [1].'
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Quanto pejorem civem existimarint feneratorem quam furem, hinc licet existimare.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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The cardinal question therefore is "Potueritne recte salutis rei publicae causa civem eversorem civitatis indemnatum necare?"
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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Decius is supposed to answer "Ne sceleratissimum quidem civem sine judicio jure ullo necare potuisti."
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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Ambros.p. 370 Quia sententiam tulerat Gracchus, ut ne quis in civem Romanum capitalem sententiam diceret.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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[274] “Qui civem Romanum indemnatum perimisset, ei aqua at igni interdiceretur.”
The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881
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