Whom they fear, they hate. And whom one hates, one hopes to see him dead.
[Quem metuunt oderunt; quem quisque odit, perisse expetit.]
Ennius (239-169 BC) Roman poet, writer [Quintus Ennius]
Fragment 410
(Source)
Quoted by Cicero, De Officiis, Book 2, ch. 7 (sec. 23) [tr. Miller]. Alt. trans.: "Whom men fear they hate; and whom they hate they eagerly wish their destruction." [tr. McCartney (1798)]
