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But when they made no answer, though he put his question to them thrice, he turned to the lictors and said:
‘It is yours now to do the rest.’ These straightway seized the young men, tore off their togas, bound their hands behind their backs, and scourged their bodies with their rods.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1.
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