§ IV. On the Flatterer

770. • A flatterer is called one who by praising, flattering, whispering, censuring, or exaggerating injury moves another to causing damage. Concerning the flatterer these things must be held:

1° He who has induced another to inflict damage by proposing praise or otherwise ignominy to follow is bound concerning the damages. For such cooperation has the character of counsel, namely when motives for acting, of themselves commonly efficacious, are proposed. Wherefore the flatterer is subject to altogether the same obligations as one counseling, concerning which see above n. 762 and following.

2° Those who so represent to a man affected by injury the magnitude of this injury that he, being moved, takes revenge, are bound to restore, provided they noticed at least that damage would probably follow.

3° But he is not bound to restitution who approves or ratifies a deed already perpetrated, unless he is the cause why restitution is not made, or new damages are inflicted.²