> since this position recurs so often lately i feel like making a point
> here. have a read at this quote in Latin:
>
> Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, mare
> scrutantur: si locupes hostis est, avari, si pauper, ambitiosi, quos
> non oriens, non occidens satiaverit; soli omnium opes atque inopiam
> pari adfectu concupiscunt. Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus
> imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
>
> it is written by Tacito about a 100 years before Christ is said to be
> born. my wild translation to english goes like:
>
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Agricola, 30
(full text at:
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml)
The same category of ideas had been expressed before (431BC) by the
Athenian historian Thuycidides, The Peloponnesian War (The fate of Melos,
in the 16th year of the war)
(
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/thucydides/crawley/chapter17.html)
Cheers patrizio & Diiiinooos!
('gesjeesde classici')
