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Fragment 410 - Ennius | WIST Quotations
Whom they fear, they hate. And whom one hates, one hopes to see him dead. [Quem metuunt oderunt; quem quisque odit, perisse expetit.] 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…