Horace Quotes
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Horace 65 BC-8 BC, Roman Poet, Quoted in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, 1899
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This is the earliest surviving attempt of the Romans to formulate a legal code.
47 laws were promulgated. Most had a maritime justice tradition. They are often referred to as the "Laws of Oleron."
1st Marquees of Halifax. Even in the 18th century, it was realized that capital punishment was not a particularly good deterrent. Savile and others observed that there was a significant vengeance motive for state execution.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
