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caedebatur
virgis in medio foro Messanae civis Romanus, iudices, cum
interea nullus gemitus, nulla vox alia illius miseri inter
dolorem crepitumque plagarum audiebatur nisi haec, 'civis
Romanus sum1.' hac se2 commemoratione civitatis! omnia
verbera depulsurum cruciatumque a corpore deiecturum
arbitrabatur; is non modo hoc non perfecit, ut3 virgarum
vim deprecaretur, sed cum imploraret saepius usurparetque
nomen civitatis, crux,—crux, inquam,—infelici et aerumnoso,
qui numquam istam4 pestem viderat5, comparabatur.
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