“Good laws are produced by bad actions.”
Saturnalia (c. 400). Alternately translated as "begot" instead of produced and "manners" instead of actions.
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Saturnalia
Saturnalia is a work written c. 400 AD by the Roman provincial Macrobius. The Saturnalia consists of an account of the discussions held at the house of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus during the holiday of the Saturnalia. It contains a great variety of curious historical, mythological, critical, antiquarian and grammatical discussions. "The work takes the form of a series of dialogues among learned men at a fictional banquet." There is little attempt to give any dramatic character to the dialogue; in each book some one of the personages takes the leading part, and the remarks of the others serve only as occasions for calling forth fresh displays of erudition.
