crucifixion

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The Columbia World of Quotations.  1996.


"It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination."


 ~~Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.),
 Roman orator, philosopher, statesman.


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