The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶196
5. Judicial perjury. The corrupt or malicious witness was thrown headlong from the Tarpeian rock, to expiate his falsehood, which was rendered still more fatal by the severity of the penal laws, and the deficiency of written evidence.Read in context ›
Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #734 (Milman edition) — public domain
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