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Whose
“corselet manifold
Scarce two men on their shoulders could uphold
”
And yet the hero buckled it upon him and
“Drave the scattering Trojans at full speed.
”
And again, Cicero
1 could hardly even have conceived of such luxury in Antony himself as he
describes when he says, “You might see beds in
the chambers of his slaves strewn with the purple
coverlets that had once been Pompey's own.” Slaves
are using purple coverlets in their chambers, aye,
and coverlets that had once been Pompey's! No
more, surely, can be said than this, and yet it leaves
us to infer how infinitely greater was the luxury of
their master.
