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Constitutum est, ut quisquis eum HOMINEM dixisset fuisse,
capitalem penderet poenam.
-St. Augustine, "Of the God Serapis," l. 18, "de Civ. Dei," c. 5.
(It was decreed, that whoso should say that he had been a MAN,
should suffer the punishment of a capital offence.)
Robespierre was reclining languidly in his fauteuil, his cadaverous c