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militibus sine caede . . . derepta: with cumulative irony. Cf. Arnold, Culture and Anarchy, chap. 2, 'If he had allowed his soldiers to interfere--their rifles (might have been) taken from them . . . with bloodshed'; Verg. Aen 11.193, spolia occisis derepta Latinis.


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