# Controversiae 8.4.13

Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, Book 8, Chapter 4. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/seneca-the-elder/controversiae/8.4.13

Et ultimas fecit has quaestiones: an si pio animo fecit non teneatur; an pio animo fecerit. Et illi quaestioni Latronis: “an tutus sit qui patre uolente fecerit,” nunc, inquit, fingit in fili patrocinium, sed tunc noluit; et adiecit: ne dixeris idem uoluisse patrem quod tyrannum. quaeritis utri paruerit? tyrannus illum amauit tamquam sibi paruisset. “Pater, inquit, uoluit:” ita tu non tyranno tantum, sed etiam patri dignus parricidio uisus es? Cum descripsisset impium in fratrem, impium in patrem, adiecit:

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