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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."

languagehat.com: AS EVERY SCHOOLBOY KNOWS. 2005

Quaeso hercle noli, Saurea, mea causa hunc verberare.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

The civil law gave the husband the same, or a larger authority over his wife, allowing him, for some misdemeanors, _flagellis et Fustibus acriter verberare uxorem_ (to beat his wife severely with whips and cudgels); for others only _modicam castigationem adhibere_ (to administer moderate chastisement).

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

The person of a freeman is sacred, 'Vincire et verberare nefas,' as Tacitus said of these Germans 600 years before.

Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847

Here you find in private life, as well as in public, the vincire et verberare nefas.

Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847

"Facinus est cruciare civem Romanum; scelus verberare; prope parricidium necare: quid dicam in crucem tollere?"

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

"Ceterum neque animadvertere, neque vincire, neque verberare quidem, nisi sacerdotibus permissum; non quasi in pœnam, nec ducis jussu, sed velut Deo imperante," says Tacitus, de Mor.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

O leges Semproniae; facinus est vincere Romanum civem, scelus verberare -- O Liberty!

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

“Facinus est cruciare civem Romanum; scelus verberare; prope parricidium necare: quid dicam in crucem tollere?”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Nihil pepercit. non puduiffe verberare hominem fenem,

Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ... 1779