The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶195

4. The malice of an incendiary. After the previous ceremony of whipping, he himself was delivered to the flames; and in this example alone our reason is tempted to applaud the justice of retaliation.

Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #734 (Milman edition) — public domain
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