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You do wrong, O Chrysogonus, if you place greater
hope of being able to preserve your purchase, than in those exploits which Lucius Sulla
has performed But if you have no cause for wishing this unhappy man to be afflicted with
such a grievous calamity; if he has given up to you everything but his life, and has
reserved to himself nothing of his paternal property, not even as a memorial of his
father—then, in the name of the gods, what is the meaning of this cruelty, of
this savage and inhuman disposition? What bandit was ever so wicked, what pirate was
ever so barbarous, as to prefer stripping off his spoils from his victim stained with
his blood, which he might possess his plunder unstained, without blood?
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