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Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Causes of Discord
Tacitus, Histories 2.38 (tr. Clifford H. Moore):
The same divine wrath, the same human
madness, the same motives to crime drove them on
to strife.
eadem illos deum ira, eadem hominum rabies, eaedem
scelerum causae in discordiam egere.