tyrannicide

Updated: May 11, 2025

You refer us to the terms of the law: well, the law looks only at the end; of the means it says nothing; it has no concern with them. Has not the reward of tyrannicide been paid before now to him who merely expelled a tyrant? And rightly so: for he too has made free men of slaves.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02