“No—foreign swords could never pierce so deeply.
The deadliest wounds are dealt by citizen hands.”

—  Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , book Pharsalia

Book I, line 31 (tr. Brian Walters).
Pharsalia

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Nulli penitus descendere ferro contigit; alta sedent civilis volnera dextrae.

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