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Examples
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'[The Germani] hold it shameful to kill any unwanted child' (Germania, 19) and ... nam et necare quemquam ex agnatis nefas ... putant, '[The Jews] think it criminal to kill any unwanted child' (Histories, 5.5).
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The ancient Germanic tribes enforced a similar prohibition; Tacitus found such mores remarkable and commented on both in nearly identical language: ... quemquam ex agnatis necare flagitium habetur ...,
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The common example of this, is that noted passage in Cicero which every schoolboy knows: "Facinus est vincire civem Romanum; scelus verberare, prope parricidium, necare; quid dicam in crucem tollere."
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Hi primo coepere pessimum quemque et omnibus invisum indemnatum necare; ea [266] populus laetari et merito dicere fieri.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Torquatus bello Gallico filium suum, quod is contra imperium in hostem pugnaverat, necare jussit, [298] atque ille egregius adolescens immoderatae fortitudinis morte poenas dedit: vos de crudelissimis parricidis quid statuatis cunctamini?
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Kill ... kill by hanging ... broken neck ... necare
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Busiridem accipimus necare hospites solitum ab Hercule hospite fuisse mactatum.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Decius is supposed to answer "Ne sceleratissimum quidem civem sine judicio jure ullo necare potuisti."
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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The cardinal question therefore is "Potueritne recte salutis rei publicae causa civem eversorem civitatis indemnatum necare?"
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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Maffææus makes the breath of crocodiles suavissimus, but that of the Malabar serpents and vipers "adeo teter ac noxius ut afflatu ipso necare perhibeantur."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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