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Iam rapta spargere,
sparsa fera et acri avaritia recolligere certant; nihil
pensi habere, paupertatem alienam contemnere,
suam magis1 quam ullum aliud vereri malum, pacem
iniuriis perturbare, imbecilliores vi ac metu premere.
Nam provincias spoliari et nummarium tribunal
audita utrimque licitatione alteri addici non mirum,
quoniam, quae emeris, vendere gentium ius est !
1 magis added by Gertz ; omitted by Hosius.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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