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O ye gods! who will he able to support
this man's power? especially when he has brought all his dependents into the
lands. Who ever was the patron of all the tribes? and of the Roman knights? and
of the military tribunes? Do you think that the power of even the Gracchi was
greater than that of this gladiator will be? whom I have called gladiator, not
in the sense in which sometimes Marcus. Antonius too is called gladiator, but as
men call him who are speaking plain Latin. He has fought in Asia as a mirmillo. After having equipped his
own companion and intimate friend in the armor of a Thracian, he slew the
miserable man as he was flying; but he himself received a palpable wound, as the
scar proves.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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