Note (return) — Chapter XV
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The consequences of great crimes, especially in high places, extend to every person and every thing connected with them. "The country and the country's gods are polluted." 944 "The army and the people share in the curse." 945 "The earth itself is polluted with the shedding of blood," 946 "and even the innocent and the virtuous who share the enterprises of the wicked may be involved in their ruin, as the pious man must sink with the ungodly when he embarks in the same ship." 947