By-respect

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  1. 1
    self-interest obsolete

    "From hence I may reasonably conclude, that Augustus, who was not altogether to good as he was wife, had some by-respect in the enacting of this law"

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"From hence I may reasonably conclude, that Augustus, who was not altogether to good as he was wife, had some by-respect in the enacting of this law"

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