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  1 1 |             like since the day when he died who had made the proverb
  2 1 |          Drusilla going heavenward; he will say he saw Claudius
  3 1 |             heavenward; he will say he saw Claudius limping along
  4 1 |             direction. Willy-nilly, he has to see everything that
  5 1 |         that happens in heaven; for he is the superintendent of
  6 1 |           gods. If you ask this man he will tell you privately;
  7 1 |           presence of more than one he’ll never speak a word. For
  8 1 |              For since the day when he took oath in the Senate
  9 1 |             oath in the Senate that he had seen Drusilla going
 10 1 |           news nobody believed him, he has declared in so many
 11 1 |      declared in so many words that he’ll not testify about anything,
 12 1 |         about anything, not even if he should see a man murdered
 13 3 |             man be tormented? Isn’t he ever to have a rest, after
 14 3 |          the sixty-fourth year that he has been afflicted with
 15 3 |             every month even, since he was made emperor. And still
 16 3 |            a trifle more time, till he should make citizens out
 17 3 |           that are left outside—for he had made up his mind to
 18 3 |             left alone. For a while he will be satisfied with these
 19 4 |             lyre and his praise, as he bade them:~“Stay not your
 20 4 |          gifts. An age of joy shall he bring men~Weary for laws
 21 4 |       restoring. Like Lucifer comes he,~Putting the scattered stars
 22 4 |             of doors.1 ~ And indeed he did go up the flume, and
 23 4 |       ceased to appear to be alive. He expired, moreover, while
 24 4 |     utterance in the locality where he expressed himself the more
 25 4 |         have hurt2 myself.” Whether he had, I don’t know; at any
 26 4 |             don’t know; at any rate he was in the habit of hurting
 27 5 |             quite gray-headed; that he was threatening something
 28 5 |             something or other, for he kept shaking his head; and
 29 5 |          shaking his head; and that he limped with his right foot.
 30 5 |            foot. The messenger said he had asked of what nation
 31 5 |            had asked of what nation he was, but his answer was
 32 5 |             of an incoherent noise; he didn’t recognize the man’
 33 5 |             the man’s language, but he wasn’t either Greek or Roman
 34 5 |         deal disturbed, even though he was one who didn’t fear
 35 5 |          any sort of monsters. When he beheld the aspect of this
 36 5 |            hoarse and inarticulate, he thought that a thirteenth
 37 5 |         labor had come to him. When he looked more carefully, however,
 38 5 |            it appeared to be a man. He approached him and thus
 39 5 |         place for his histories. So he, too, in a Homeric verse,
 40 6 |                              6] And he would have imposed upon
 41 6 |            All the other divinities he had left behind at Rome.
 42 6 |             is simple nonsense that he is giving you. I tell you—
 43 6 |          with him for so many years—he was born at Lugudunum; you
 44 6 |       citizens. As I’m telling you, he was born sixteen miles from
 45 6 |           so as a Gaul ought to do, he captured Rome. Take my word
 46 6 |          Rome. Take my word for it, he was born at Lugudunum, where
 47 6 |       angrily grumbled as loudly as he could. What he was saying,
 48 6 |            loudly as he could. What he was saying, nobody understood,
 49 6 |             understood, except that he commanded Fever to be led
 50 6 |           of decapitating people as he was accustomed, he had ordered
 51 6 |        people as he was accustomed, he had ordered her head to
 52 7 |        order to be more terrifying, he struck the attitude of a
 53 7 |         drew breath?”~ These things he said with spirit, and boldly
 54 7 |        boldly enough. All the same, he was inwardly a good deal
 55 7 |         match for him at Rome, here he didn’t have the same advantage;
 56 7 |           be made out, this is what he appeared to say: “I did
 57 8 |            you want him to be made. He cannot be an Epicurean god,
 58 8 |            others. A Stoic? How can he be ‘round,’ as Varro says, ‘
 59 8 |           the Stoic god, now I see. He has neither heart nor head.
 60 8 |          going the whole year long, he wouldn’t have got it; and
 61 8 |             have got it; and surely he wouldn’t of Jove, whom so
 62 8 |             of Jove, whom so far as he possibly could he convicted
 63 8 |            far as he possibly could he convicted of incest. For
 64 8 |            convicted of incest. For he put to death Silanus his
 65 8 |             mice live on dainties.’ He’s going to straighten our
 66 8 |        straighten our crooked ways! He doesn’t know what goes on
 67 8 |           his own chamber, and now ‘he searches the regions of
 68 8 |             the regions of heaven.’ He wants to become a god. Isn’
 69 8 |        wants to become a god. Isn’t he satisfied that he has a
 70 8 |             Isn’t he satisfied that he has a temple in Britain;
 71 9 |      questions, Conscript Fathers,” he said, “but you have brought
 72 9 |           will this person, whoever he is, think of us?” ~ When
 73 9 |            to be asked his opinion. He had been elected afternoon
 74 9 |          both forward and backward. He spoke at some length, and
 75 9 |       length, and fluently, because he lives in the Forum; but
 76 9 |             fear of misquoting what he said. He said a good deal
 77 9 |            misquoting what he said. He said a good deal about the
 78 9 |        given commonly. “Once,” said he, “it was a great thing to
 79 9 |     money-changer; by this business he supported himself, and he
 80 9 |           he supported himself, and he was accustomed to sell citizenships
 81 9 |             on the ear. Accordingly he expressed his opinion in
 82 9 |             own orders, and whereas he far surpasses all mortals
 83 10|            Conscript Fathers,” said he, “that since I was made
 84 10|           doesn’t seem to you as if he could disturb a fly, used
 85 11|             years. One person’s leg he has broken, Vulcan’s whom ~
 86 11|          Snatching him by the foot, he hurled from the heavenly
 87 11|           heavenly threshold; ~ and he got angry at his wide and
 88 11|           wide and hung her up, but he didn’t kill her, did he?
 89 11|             he didn’t kill her, did he? But you have put to death
 90 11|           than that you killed her. He has never ceased to follow
 91 11|              but took off his head. He killed in one household
 92 11|      Crassus besides so stupid that he was even qualified to reign.
 93 11|         were angry. And finally, if he can say three consecutive
 94 11|         consecutive words together, he can have me as his slave.
 95 11|            as you make such gods as he, nobody will believe that
 96 11|         which I have to offer;” and he read as follows from his
 97 11|           be meted out to him, that he be granted no rest from
 98 11|        adjudicating cases, and that he be got out of the way as
 99 12|            again. One of them, when he had seen the pettifoggers
100 12|            forever.” Claudius, when he saw his own funeral, understood
101 12|            funeral, understood that he was dead. For in a mighty
102 12|             Not in the whole world.~He in the quick-sped race could
103 12|           victor~Over the swiftest; he could rebellious~Parthians
104 12|        backs to disaster.~Conqueror he of Britons beyond the~Shores
105 12| dark-blue-shielded Brigantes~Forced he to bend their necks to the
106 13|          the latter was approaching he ran up, all sleek from the
107 13|           so, in spite of his gout, he came in twinkling to Pluto’
108 13|       Narcissus was a trifle scared—he had been accustomed to have
109 13|             white dog as a pet—when he saw that huge, hairy black
110 13|         dark. And with a loud voice he said, “Claudius is coming.”
111 13|            sent ahead in order that he might not be anywhere unprepared;
112 13|         came to meet Claudius. When he had seen them, he exclaimed: “
113 13|              When he had seen them, he exclaimed: “Plenty of friends,
114 14|                                 14] He led him to the bar of Aeacus,
115 14|    Cornelian law against assassins. He asked that the court would
116 14|           Right will be done him if he be treated as he treated
117 14|             him if he be treated as he treated others.” Then there
118 14|        Tantalus’ suffering too long he would perish of thirst unless
119 14|    bottomless dice-box. And already he had begun to search for
120 15|                 15] Every time when he wanted to throw from his
121 15|            in the bottom.~Then when he gathered them up and once
122 15|            to claim him as a slave. He produced witnesses who had