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And if the Twelve Tables have
permitted that a nightly robber may be slain any way, but a robber by day if
he defends himself, with a weapon, who is there who can think a man to be
punished for slaying another, in whatever way he is slain, when he sees that
sometimes a sword to kill a man with is put into our bands by the very laws
themselves?
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