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... arms . This statement is no commonplace , but truth : regard my words as an inspired Sibyl's rede . If your staff of officials are guiltless , if no long - haired darling sells you judgments , if your wife is blameless , and Rapine with ...
... arms . This statement is no commonplace , but truth : regard my words as an inspired Sibyl's rede . If your staff of officials are guiltless , if no long - haired darling sells you judgments , if your wife is blameless , and Rapine with ...
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... arms or from Galba and Vindex joined in revolt ? Such are the deeds , such the accomplishments of a sovereign of royal birth , whose delight was to demean himself by scandalous singing on a foreign stage , and to have earned the Grecian ...
... arms or from Galba and Vindex joined in revolt ? Such are the deeds , such the accomplishments of a sovereign of royal birth , whose delight was to demean himself by scandalous singing on a foreign stage , and to have earned the Grecian ...
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... arms by Vulcan welded , than that you yourself were a Thersites with Achilles for your sire . And after all , however far you trace back , however far follow up your name , you derive your lineage from an ill - reputed refuge ; whoever ...
... arms by Vulcan welded , than that you yourself were a Thersites with Achilles for your sire . And after all , however far you trace back , however far follow up your name , you derive your lineage from an ill - reputed refuge ; whoever ...
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... arms , a palsied warrior , and fell before high Jupiter's altar , like an old steer that when at last rejected by the thankless plough proffers its poor lean neck to its master's knife . His was at least a human being's end , but his ...
... arms , a palsied warrior , and fell before high Jupiter's altar , like an old steer that when at last rejected by the thankless plough proffers its poor lean neck to its master's knife . His was at least a human being's end , but his ...
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... arms . All that old world you would envy , if the faintest jealousy you own . Also the mystic pre- sence in the temples was nearer to men , and a voice was heard about midnight and in the city's midst when the Gauls marched from the ...
... arms . All that old world you would envy , if the faintest jealousy you own . Also the mystic pre- sence in the temples was nearer to men , and a voice was heard about midnight and in the city's midst when the Gauls marched from the ...
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