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Quotation from The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar

“Accordingly he cut off the hands of those who had borne arms against him. Their lives he spared, that the punishment of their rebellion might be the more conspicuous”

Julius Caesar (spoken by Aulus Hirtius (narrator))

The Conquest of Gaul, Book VIII.44, trans. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn (1869)

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After the fall of Uxellodunum, Caesar mutilates the defenders as a deterrent, with Hirtius insisting that this was not natural cruelty.

Citation: "Accordingly he cut off the hands of those who had borne arms against him. Their lives he spared, that the punishment of their rebellion might be the more conspicuous" — Julius Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul, Book VIII.44, trans. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn (1869). (id the-conquest-of-gaul-q11)

Portrait: Retrato de Julio César (26724093101) (cropped), Ángel M. Felicísimo from Mérida, España, Public domain.

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