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You
recollect, O judges, that on that day the Tiber was filled with the corpses of the citizens, that the
sewers were choked up; that blood was wiped up out of the forum with
sponges; so that all men thought that such a vast number and such a
magnificent show of gladiators could not have been provided by any private
individual, or plebeian, but must be the exhibition of some patrician and
man of praetorian rank.
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