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Nay, even the king himself, worn out by a
ten years' war, which had cost him the loss of so many
of his sons, and threatened to lay his kingdom in the
dust, the man who, above all, should have loathed
and detested her beauty, the source of all those
tears, hears these words, calls her his daughter, and
places her by his side, excuses her guilt, and denies
that she is the cause of his sorrows.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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