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While he is urging this with a loud voice, six
of the most vigorous lictors surround him, men in full practice in beating and
scourging men; they beat him most furiously with rods; then the lictor who was
nearest to him, the man whom I have already often mentioned, Sextus, turning his
stick round, began to beat the wretched man violently on the eyes. Therefore, when
blood had filled his mouth and eyes, he fell down, and they, nevertheless, continued
to beat him on the sides while lying on the ground, till he said at last he would
give security. He, having been treated in this manner, was taken away from the place
as dead, and, in a short time afterwards, he died. But that devoted servant of
Venus, that man so rich in wit and politeness, erected a silver Cupid out of his
property in the temple of Venus. And in this way he misused the fortunes of men to
fulfil the nightly vows made by him for the accomplishment of his desires.
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