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Then will come the pillage of treasure
sacred and profane, the hurrying to and fro of the
plunderers as they carry off their booty or return to
seek for more, the prisoners driven each before his
own inhuman captor, the mother struggling to keep
her child, and the victors fighting over the richest
of the spoil. For though, as I have already said,
the sack of a city includes all these things, it is less
effective to tell the whole news at once than to
recount it detail by detail.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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