cui bono
Meanings
noun
- The principle that the ultimate initiator of an action is likely the person who stands to gain from the action.
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Etymology
From Cicero’s Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino, 84 & 86: Latin cui bonō fuisset (“to whom it would have benefited”), a so-called double dative construction.
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