But after pillaging temples, and seeing numbers of nations and slaughters, many ultimately ceased to believe in anything but destiny and death;-and every evening these would fall asleep with the placidity of wild beasts.
"Salammbo"
Gustave Flaubert
I showed the complaining citizens who it is that slaughters their flesh and blood, and from whom to look for peace and content.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
It is confessed on all hands, that Lysander offended most commonly for the sake of his companions, committing several slaughters to uphold their power and dominion; but as for Sylla, he, out of envy, reduced Pompey's command by land, and Dolabella's by sea, although he himself had given them those places; and ordered Lucretius Ofella, who sued for the consulship as the reward of many great services, to be slain before his eyes, exciting horror and alarm in the minds of all men, by his cruelty to his dearest friends.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh