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Those men who carry about and who listen to accusations, should all be hanged, if so it could be at my decision—the carriers by their tongues, the listeners by their ears.
Those men who carry about and who listen to accusations, should all be hanged, if so it could be at my decision—the carriers by their tongues, the listeners by their ears.
Approximate author period: c. 219 BC · classical
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- Plautus
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- Approximate author period: c. 219 BC · classical
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Slander · anthology attribution: Plautus
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