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Post
autem cum Persis et Philippus, qui cogitavit, et
Alexander, qui gessit, hanc bellandi causam inferebat, quod vellet Graeciae fana poenire; quae
ne reficienda quidem Graii putaverunt, ut esset posteris ante os documentum Persarum sceleris sempiternum. Quam multi, ut Tauri in Axino, ut rex
Aegypti Busiris, ut Galli, ut Poeni, homines immolare et pium et dis immortalibus gratissumum esse
duxerunt! Vitae vero instituta sic distant, ut Cretes
et Aetoli latrocinari honestum putent, Lacedaemonii
suos omnes agros esse dictitarint, quos spiculo
possent attingere. Athenienses iurare etiam publice
solebant omnem suam esse terram, quae oleam frugesve ferret; Galli turpe esse ducunt frumentum
manu quaerere, itaque armati alienos agros demetunt;
M. Tullius Cicero. Librorum de Re Publica Sex. C. F. W. Mueller. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. Scanned printed text.
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