Thursday, October 06, 2016
Fees and Surcharges
Cicero, Against Verres 2.3.78.181 (tr. L.H.G. Greenwood, with his note):
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All these terms, gentlemen, are not names for real thingsb: they are names for impudent pieces of theft.
b i.e., for costs really incurred or real work performed.
haec omnia, iudices, non rerum certarum, sed furtorum improbissimorum sunt vocabula.