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Or again take the case of the soldier
Arruntius, who killed the tribune Lusius for assaulting
his honour. The question is whether he was justified
in so doing, the line of defence, that the murdered man
made an assault upon his honour, the point for the
decision of the judge, whether it was right that a man
should be killed uncondemned or a tribune by a
soldier.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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