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A wrong act is also greater when it is unprecedented, or the first of
its kind, or when committed with the aid of few accomplices1; and when it has been
frequently committed; or when because of it new prohibitions and penalties have
been sought and found: thus, at Argos
the citizen owing to whom a new law has been passed, is punished, as well as
those on whose account a new prison had to be built.
1 “Or has been seldom paralleled” （Cope, but cp. 1.9.38）.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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