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Metus also and iniuria, and some other words of the kind. may be used in this double sense; for metus hostium, fear of the enemy, is a correct expression both when the enemy fear and when they are feared. Thus Sallust in the first book of his History i. 53, Maur. speaks of the fear of Pompey, not implying that Pompey was afraid, which is the more common meaning, but that he was feared. These are Sallust's words: That war was aroused by the fear of the victorious Pompey, who was restoring Hiempsal to his kingdom. Also in another passage: I. 12, Maur. After the fear of the Carthaginians had been dispelled and there was leisure to engage in dissensions. In the same way we speak of the injuries, as well of those who inflict them as of those who suffer them, and illustrations of that usage are readily found.
