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When Sextus Roscius was
slain, the first person who brings the news to Ameria, is a certain Mallius Glaucia, a man of no consideration, a
freedman, the client and intimate friend of that Titus Roscius; and he brings the news
to the house, not of the son, but of Titus Capito, his enemy, and though he had been
slain about the first hour of the night, this messenger arrives at Ameria by the first dawn of day. In ten hours of the
night he travelled fifty-six miles in a gig; not only to be the first to bring his enemy
the wished-for news, but to show him the blood of his enemy still quite fresh, and the
weapon only lately extracted from his body.
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