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Canius was furious; but what could he do? For1
not yet had my colleague and friend, Gaius Aquilius,
introduced the established forms to apply to criminal
fraud. When asked what he meant by “criminal
fraud,” as specified in these forms, he would reply:
“Pretending one thing and practising another”—a
very felicitous definition, as one might expect from
an expert in making them. Pythius, therefore, and
all others who do one thing while they pretend
another are faithless, dishonest, and unprincipled
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scoundrels. No act of theirs can be expedient, when
what they do is tainted with so many vices.
1 Criminal fraud.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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