# Controversiae 10.3.12

Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, Book 10, Chapter 3. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/seneca-the-elder/controversiae/10.3.12

an ob hoc perierit. Color a parte accusatoris simplex est: ait patrem durum fuisse, crudelem, bono publico hunc non fuisse partium ducem. Dixit, inquit, eo uultu, ea adfirmatione, ut uideretur non iubere tantum, sed occidere. Hoc loco dixit TVRRINVS CLODIVS : hoc post bellum, immo post edictum? et adiecit: nunc intellegit respublica, imperator, quantum tibi debeat cui sine sanguine satisfactum est. Omnes uirum dixerunt patre nolente illam duxisse.

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Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, ed. Adolf Gottlieb Kiessling. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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