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The legislation of a rude and half-civilized people was thus applied to an enlightened and moral community. The consequence was that the punishment of death was never more frequently prescribed by the statute, and never more rarely enforced towards the guilty.

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High School Reunion

by ysgall
2-08-01


	And, to put all in a word, it was not possible to see a single man in Byzantium clad in the chlamys, and especially when the emperor became ill (for he too had a swelling of the groin)...

*Procopius, History of the Wars


	...but in a city which held dominion over the whole Roman empire every man was wearing clothes befitting private station and remaining quietly at home. *


	Oh God, I'm 32 years old and I still live with my mother.

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