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 other in his more precious soul; Do not unto others what it angers you to suffer yourself; Even should we be able to conceal our conduct from gods and men, we are not the less bound to act uprightly; The judge, as well as the criminal, is on his trial that he may deliver just decisions; Do not revile the malefactor, but commiserate him as one who knows not right from wrong; Blame none, for men only do evil involuntarily. By the first century slaves had begun to be considered in a more humane light; and masters were enjoined to look on them as humble friends, as brothers with whom it was no disgrace to sit at meat. The iniquity of the gladiatorial shows was beginning to be felt in the time of Cicero, and they were denounced in no measured terms by Seneca. Such exhibitions had never been proper to the Greek communities and, when an attempt was made to introduce them at Athens in the second century, the cynic philosopher Demonax restrained his fellow citizens by declaring that before doing so they should