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“Well,” says he,
“but what harm can all this now do Caius Marius, since he has no longer any feeling
or any life?” Is it so? Would Caius Marius have spent his life in such labours and
such dangers, if he had no hopes and no ideas of any glory which was to extend beyond the
limits of his own life? No doubt, when he had routed the countless armies of the enemy in
Italy, and when he had delivered the city from
siege, he thought that all his achievements would perish with himself.
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