“Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.”

—  Tacitus , book Annals

Book XIV, 44
Annals (117)

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Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitus.

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