I’m looking for a good source for this quote. Can anyone give me a good reference online. I’m not too skilled with Perseus.
Two writers of antiquity (Tacitus and Marcellinus) wrote: "…by gambling men are led to fraud, cheating, lying, perjury, theft and other enormities
Hi Geoff. Plugging this quote into Google yields several results. The exact text is found in http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06375b.htm which is the 1909 Catholic Encyclopedia online, all other hits seemed to be verbatim “lifts” from this reference.
This link has some gambling-related commentary on Tacitus:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tacitus1.html
Best,
Ron