An idea from On Duties

Killing a close friend is the worst crime there is, unless the friend is a tyrant, and then Rome calls it the noblest deed. Julius Caesar had been stabbed by men close to him a few months earlier. He is the tyrant in view.

From On Duties by Cicero

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