Cui Bono?

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 608

Cui Bono? ('for whose advantage?'), a Latin phrase not infrequent in Cicero and elsewhere, and very common in modern newspaper English, usually in a somewhat erroneous sense, as if equivalent in meaning to 'what's the good?'

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