When you ordered those persons who, in an assembly of virtuous men, had spoken in defense of safety, to come forward, and had driven away their companions and seconders by blows and arms and stones, then, no doubt, you showed that violence was excessively disagreeable to you. Marcus Tullius Cicero. On His House. Section 54.
Image: One of the Dioscuri seizing a daughter of Leucippus from a Roman sarcophagus circa 160 CE that I photographed at the Walters Art Museum.
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