Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ So let that Cassian maxim be applied to these people, ‘cui bono?’, albeit that the good people are driven into crime by no want of their own, and the bad people are nudged into criminal activities by the smallest nuance. ”

“ If, however, reasoned thought has instilled this idea in learned men, and necessity has instilled it into barbarians, and habit instilled into mobs, and nature herself has even pervaded it into wild beasts, that they might repel all violence always by all means necessary, from body, head and life, you are not able to denounce this deed as unlawful, unless you also decree that everyone who has come against robbers should die, either by their weapons, or by your casting of lots. ”

“ At once a number of people from in front launches an attack against my client, with weapons, from higher ground, and they killed the coachman. But when my client had leapt down from the coach, with his cloak slung over his shoulders, and he defended himself valiantly, they, who were with Clodius, partly with their swords drawn, ran back to the coach to attack Milo from the rear, partly as they thought my client was now slain, they began to slaughter his slaves, who were behind ”