30.
This discussion having been held on the two sides, when opposition was offered
strenuously by Cotta and the principal officers,
"Prevail," said Sabinus, "if so you wish it;" and he
said it with a louder voice, that a great portion of the soldiers might hear
him; "nor am I the person among you," he said, "who is most powerfully alarmed
by the danger of death; these will be aware of it, and then, if any thing
disastrous shall have occurred, they will demand a reckoning at your hands;
these, who, if it were permitted by you, united three days hence with the
nearest winter-quarters, may encounter the common condition of war with the
rest, and not, as if forced away and separated far from the rest, perish either
by the sword or by famine."
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