The judge is condemned when the guilty party is acquitted.

Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.

Publilius Syrus

Sententiae

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Legal theory Criminal law

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Publilius Syrus

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Sententiae

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Epigram

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Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

Latin

Time

43 BC 40s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Writer

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Turkey Europe

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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