nefas

The Romans coined a phrase "Iuppiter iratus ergo nefas" Jupiter, you're angry therefore you're wrong.

Haggai Carmon: The Domino Effect: Is Iran Next? Haggai Carmon 2011

'[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).

Obama's Wooing Of Evangelicals Runs Into Fierce Resistance 2009

Tu ne quaesieris--scire nefas--quem mihi, quem tibi finem di dederint, Leuconoë, nec Babylonios temptaris numeros.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

Tu ne quaesieris--scire nefas--quem mihi, quem tibi finem di dederint, Leuconoë, nec Babylonios temptaris numeros.

Archive 2009-02-01 Flavia 2009

Ah! sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the just and the unjust, over the fas and the nefas.

Les Miserables 2008

Non fuit vasti spatium per orbis sanctior quisquam genitus Iohanne, qui nefas saecli meruit lavantem tingere limphis.

Archive 2008-06-01 bls 2008

Tu ne quaesieris (scire nefas) quem mihi, quem tibi

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Some out of that insatiable desire of filthy lucre, to be enriched, care not how they come by it per fas et nefas, hook or crook, so they have it.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Paterculus of Cato, Jam ipsum laudare nefas sit: and which [2072] Pliny to Trajan.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

To obtain per fas et nefas a terrestrial paradise of luxury and earthly enjoyment, to harden the heart and macerate the body for the sake of fleeting possessions, as the martyrs once suffered all things to reach eternal joys, this is now the universal thought — a thought written everywhere, even in the very laws which ask of the legislator, “What do you pay?” instead of asking him, “What do you think?”

Eug�nie Grandet 2007