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A single example from Cicero1 will suffice to
llustrate all these points. “It is a sin to bind a
Roman citizen, a crime to scourge him, little short
if the most unnatural murder to put him to death;
chat then shall I call his crucifixion?” If he had
merely been scourged, we should have had but one
tep, indicated by the description even of the lesser
offence as a sin, while if he had merely been killed,
1 Verr. v. lxvi. 170.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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