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Hence arose that Verrean
festival; hence it was that he ventured to order Sextus Cominius to be dragged
before him at a banquet, at whom he attempted to throw a goblet, whom he ordered to
be seized by the throat, and to be hurried from the banquet and thrown into a dark
prison; hence came that cross, on which, in the sight of many men, he suspended a
Roman citizen; that cross which he never ventured to erect anywhere except among
that people, whom he had made sharers in all his crimes and robberies.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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