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That gladiator saw that he could not be a match for such wisdom as that of
Milo, if he proceeded according
to ordinary usage. He resorted to arms, to firebrands, to daily slaughter,
to conflagration and plunder, with his army. He began to attack his house,
to meet him on his journeys, to provoke him by violence, to try and alarm
him. He had but little effect on a man of consummate wisdom and consummate
firmness; but although indignation of mind, and an innate love of liberty,
and prompt and excellent valour, encouraged that gallant man to break down
and repel violence by violence, especially now that violence was so
repeatedly offered, still so great was the moderation of the man, and so
excessive his prudence, that he restrained his indignation, and would not
avenge himself by the same conduct as that by which he had been provoked;
but he resolved rather to entangle in the toils of the law that fellow who
was exulting and dancing in triumph over all the murders which he had
committed in the republic.
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