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That Tertia
whom I have spoken of before, having been tempted by trick and artifice to leave her
Rhodian flute-player and to come hither, is reported to have caused great
disturbance in that camp; as the wife of Cleomenes the Syracusan, a woman of noble
birth, and the wife of Aeschrio, a woman of very respectable patronage, were very
indignant that the daughter of Isidorus the buffoon should be admitted into their
company. But that Hannibal, who thought that in his army there ought to be no
rivalry of birth, but only of merit, was so much in love with this Tertia, that he
carried her with him out of the province.
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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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