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All the evidence points to
the guilt of three sons who had conspired against
their father. After drawing lots they entered
their father's bedroom while he slept, one following
the other in the order predetermined and each
armed with a sword. None of them had the heart
to kill him, he woke and they confessed all.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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