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‘“Since you yourselves have sold yourselves for
flatteries and poisoned gifts.”’
Are those men depraved and corrupted, who have been persuaded to pursue a most
detestable enemy with most righteous war? ‘“But
you say, you are bringing assistance to troops who are hemmed in. I have no
objection to their being saved, and departing wherever you wish, if they
only allow that man to be put to death who has deserved it.”’
How very kind of him! The soldiers availing themselves of the liberality of
Antonius have deserted their general, and have fled in alarm to his enemy; and
if it had not been for them, Dolabella, in offering the sacrifice which he did
to the shade of his general, would not have been beforehand with Antonius in
propitiating the spirit of his colleague by a similar offering.
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