Why, if it is not easy to find a crime which has not yet been committed, and if we should consider that those who have been found guilty of one or another of these crimes have done nothing so very wrong, whenever others are found to have perpetrated the same offences, should we not be providing ready-made pleas in exculpation of all criminals and be granting complete licence for those who are bent on villainy? Isocrates. Busiris. Speech 11. Section 45.
Image: Faithful unto death by Herbert Gustave Schmalz, 1888 (Damnatio ad bestias) courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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