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The Summer of 1876 "Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West" Sale: $21 to $1.99 by Chris Wimmer Rating: 4.5/5 (590 Reviews) #history #west #americas #kindle #books #podcast #lawmen #outlaws #legend #wyatt #custer #wildbill #deadwood #baseball #booksky

The Summer of 1876

"In Anglo-Saxon England, the bounty for killing an outlaw was the same as for killing a wolf. By the late Middle Ages, this had evolved into the legal principle of wolfesheed: the outlaw was a wolf, able to be hunted and killed exactly like a wolf, legally and by any means."

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6o066q/in_fantasy_books_bandits_seem_to_be_a_very_common/

Found via https://initiativeone.blogspot.com/2017/07/paying-for-safe-passage-or-banditry-and.html which has more good RPG thoughts about bandits.

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A quotation from Cicero

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangsters amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!
 
[Quod est aliud, patres conscripti, beneficium latronum, nisi ut commemorare possint iis se dedisse vitam, quibus non ademerint?]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 3 / sec. 5 (3.3; 3.5) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Grant (1960)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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