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Plutarch, Sulla, 34.2
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1. Cicero, On Duties, 3.32 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3.32. Nam quod ad Phalarim attinet, perfacile iudicium est. Nulla est enim societas nobis cum tyrannis, et potius summa distractio est, neque est contra naturam spoliare eum, si possis, quem est honestum necare, atque hoc omne genus pestiferum atque impium ex hominum communitate extermidum est. Etenim, ut membra quaedam amputantur, si et ipsa sanguine et tamquam spiritu carere coeperunt et nocent reliquis partibus corporis, sic ista in figura hominis feritas et immanitas beluae a communi tamquam humanitatis corpore segreganda est. Huius generis quaestiones sunt omnes eae, in quibus ex tempore officium exquiritur.

3.32. As for the case of Phalaris, a decision is quite simple: we have no ties of fellowship with a tyrant, but rather the bitterest feud; and it is not opposed to Nature to rob, if one can, a man whom it is morally right to kill; â nay, all that pestilent and abominable race should be exterminated from human society. And this may be done by proper measures; for, as certain members are amputated, if they show signs themselves of being bloodless and virtually lifeless and thus jeopardize the health of the other parts of the body, so those fierce and savage monsters in human form should be cut off from what may be called the common body of humanity. of this sort are all those problems in which we have to determine what moral duty is, as it varies with varying circumstances.

2. Cicero, In Verrem, 2.2.154 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Plutarch, On The Fortune of The Romans, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

318d. And Fortune's son Ihold myself to be. In the Latin tongue he was called Felix, but for the Greeks he wrote his name thus: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Epaphroditus. And the trophies at my home in Chaeroneia and those of the Mithridatic Wars are thus inscribed, quite appropriately; for not "Night," as Meder has it, but Fortune has the "greater share in AphroditÃª." Might one, then, after proffering this as a suitable introduction, bring on the Romans once more as witnesses in behalf of Fortune, on the ground that they assigned more to Fortune than to Virtue? At least, it was only recently and after many years that Scipio Numantinus built a shrine of Virtue in Rome;

4. Plutarch, Demosthenes, 2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

5. Plutarch, Table Talk, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

6. Plutarch, Sulla, 19.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
chaeronea,battle of	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 197
chaeronea	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 197
cornelia (mother of the gracchi)	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 43
dictatorship,of sulla.	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 43
marius,c.,described as pestilential	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 43
medical imagery,violence as medicine	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 43
opimius,l.,justification for murder of c. gracchus	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 43
res publica,salus of	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 43
salus,as political principle	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 43
sempronius gracchus,c.,killed pro salute patriae	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 43
sempronius gracchus,c.,ripped from bosom of state	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 43
sulla'	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 197