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[3] and on being told by him that the greater part of them had escaped, he nodded his head, and with a kindly look at the man said to him: ‘That is good news, if we have not wholly lost.’ Without another word and even without a sigh he drained the cup and laid himself down again. He did not give the poison much to do, but breathed his last speedily, so weak was he.

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