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Now, since Brutus conjectured that not many of his men had been killed in the battle, Statyllius1 promised him that after cutting his way through the enemy (there was no other way), he would reconnoitre the camp, raise a blazing torch if he found things there in safety, and then come back to him. Accordingly, the blazing torch was raised, since Statyllius succeeded in reaching the camp; but after a long time had passed and he did not return, Brutus said:
‘If Statyllius is alive, he will come back.’ But it so happened that he fell in with the enemy on his way back, and was slain.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. 6.
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