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But the Gauls being introduced, said that an oath had been administered to
them, and letters given them by Publius Lentulus, Cethegus, and Statilius, for
their nation; and that they had been enjoined by them, and by Lucius Cassius, to send cavalry
into Italy as early as possible; that infantry should not be wanting; and that Lentulus had
assured him, from the Sibylline oracles and the answers of soothsayers, that he was that
third Cornelius to whom the kingdom and sovereignty over this city was fated to come; that
Cinna and Sulla had been before him; and that he had also said that was the year destined to
the destruction of this city and empire, being the tenth year after the acquittal of the
virgins, and the twentieth after the burning of the Capitol.
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