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发帖数: 759 | 1 CHAP. 5.--CAESAR'S STATEMENT REGARDING THE UNIVERSAL CUSTOM
OF AN ENEMY WHEN SACKING A CITY.
Even Caesar himself gives us positive testimony regarding
this custom; for, in his deliverance in the senate about the
conspirators, he says (as Sallust,
a historian of distinguished veracity, writes(3)) "that
virgins and boys are violated, children torn from the
embrace of their parents, matrons subjected
to whatever should be the pleasure of the conquerors,
temples and houses plundered, slaughter and b |
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