“You have taken from me the one privilege of civil war – the power of granting life to the defeated.”

—  Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , book Pharsalia

Book IX, line 1066 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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Unica belli praemia civilis, victis donare salutem, perdidimus.

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