The powers that be -- or maybe just a mob, I don't know -- burned 700 residents of Basel, Switzerland, to death on January 9, 1349. The incineration of these people, who were Jews, was an effort to stop the spread of the Black Plague.
Some more looking finds that a mob forced the powers that be to commit that atrocity.
From Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2, at the beginning of Marc Antony's "Friends, Romans, countrymen" eulogy:
Some more looking finds that a mob forced the powers that be to commit that atrocity.
From Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2, at the beginning of Marc Antony's "Friends, Romans, countrymen" eulogy:
The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.Or perhaps with their ashes.