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while, in the meantime,
the soldiers at Dyrrachium began to besiege the house in which they thought
that he was, and as they thought that he was hiding himself there, they
began to set fire to it. And the people of Dyrrachium, being alarmed at that
proceeding, told them that their “Imperator” had fled away by night in his slippers.
Then the troops displace, and throw down, and deface, and destroy a statue
of his, an excellent likeness of him, which he had caused to be erected in
the most frequented place, that the recollection of so delightful a man
might not perish; and in this way they expended on his likeness and on his
effigy the hatred which they had hoped to wreak on himself.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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