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Capital crimes are being committed in this State; for there's a whore who doesn't want to take money from a love-sick sweetheart.

— Caecilius Statius

In civitate fiunt facinora capitalia:
Nam ab amico amante argentum accipere meretrix noenu volt.

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Synephebi, fragment 3; as quoted by Cicero, De Natura Deorum, I, 6, 13

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