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‘“Men who will count the destruction of either
you or me gain to them. A spectacle which as yet fortune herself has taken
care to avoid, unwilling to see two armies which belong to one body
fighting, with Cicero acting as master of the show; a fellow who is so far
happy that he has cajoled you both with the same compliments as those with
which he boasted that he had deceived Caesar.”’
He proceeds in his abuse of me, as if he had been very fortunate in all his
former reproaches of me; but I will brand him with the most thoroughly deserved
marks of infamy, and pillory him for the everlasting recollection of posterity.
I a ‘“master of the show of
gladiators!”’ indeed he is not wholly wrong, for I do wish to
see the worst party slain, and the best victorious! He writes that ‘“whichever of them are destroyed we shall
count as so much gain.”’
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