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"You are committing murder in not begetting in the first place those who ought to be your descendants; you are committing sacrilege in putting an end to the names and honours of your ancestors, and you are guilty of impiety in that you are abolishing your families, which were instituted by the gods, and destroying the greatest of offerings to them. — human life — thus overthrowing their rites by your temples. Moreover, you are destroying the State by disobeying its laws, for you are betraying your country by rendering her barren and childless; nay, more, you are laying her even with the dust by making her destitute of future inhabitants. For it human beings that constitute a city, we are told, not houses or porticos or market-places empty of men." — Caesar Augustus, Dio 56.5.

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