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1 1 | good news nobody believed him, he has declared in so many
2 1 | What I have heard from him, then, I state positively
3 1 | positively and plainly, so help him! ~
4 3 | grudge have you got against him and the nation? For once
5 3 | truth, who have been taking him off every year, every month
6 3 | what is necessary: ~ ‘Give him over to death: let a better
7 3 | swear I intended to give him a trifle more time, till
8 3 | she said, “and not send him off unattended. For it isn’
9 3 | thousands of people following him about, going ahead of him,
10 3 | him about, going ahead of him, and all around him, should
11 3 | ahead of him, and all around him, should all of a sudden
12 4 | Fateful Sisters, but make him a victor~Over the barriers
13 4 | lifetime of mortals;~Let him be blessed with a grace
14 4 | mine, and in music~Grant him no meaner gifts. An age
15 4 | and great content to send him out of doors.1 ~ And indeed
16 5 | thirteenth labor had come to him. When he looked more carefully,
17 5 | be a man. He approached him and thus spoke, as was easiest
18 6 | her shrine and come with him. All the other divinities
19 6 | you—I who have lived with him for so many years—he was
20 6 | attention did any one pay him.
21 7 | one had been a match for him at Rome, here he didn’t
22 8 | what sort of a god you want him to be made. He cannot be
23 8 | Yet there is something in him of the Stoic god, now I
24 8 | that the barbarians worship him and beseech him as a god
25 8 | worship him and beseech him as a god that they may find
26 8 | a god that they may find him a merciful madman?” ~
27 9 | therefore I do not report him, for fear of misquoting
28 9 | way. Hercules approached him politely and gave him an
29 9 | approached him politely and gave him an admonitory touch on the
30 9 | has been made so before him, and that this event be
31 11| Vulcan’s whom ~ Snatching him by the foot, he hurled from
32 11| Magnus; this man returned him the name, but took off his
33 11| god? Who will believe in him? As long as you make such
34 11| punishment be meted out to him, that he be granted no rest
35 11| delay the Cyllenian dragged him by the nape of his neck
36 12| in flight, should pierce him afar, while~Gay-coated Medes
37 12| office resigned thee~By him who presides in the court
38 13| the gods laid a hand on him and pulled him away, with
39 13| a hand on him and pulled him away, with his head covered
40 13| that nobody could recognize him, across the Campus Martius,
41 13| and chanting: “We have got him; let us rejoice!” Among
42 14| 14] He led him to the bar of Aeacus, who
43 14| equitable of persons, forbade him and condemned Claudius after
44 14| saying: “Right will be done him if he be treated as he treated
45 14| appropriate sentence for him. Various ones said that
46 14| to be arranged, that for him must be devised some vain
47 14| consummation. Then Aeacus commanded him to gamble with a bottomless
48 15| Both of the dice escaped him by way of the hole in the
49 15| them,~Over again they gave him the slip, and kept him pursuing,~
50 15| gave him the slip, and kept him pursuing,~Constantly baffling
51 15| appeared and began to claim him as a slave. He produced
52 15| Claudius getting thrashed by him with whips, with rods, and
53 15| Caesar; Caesar presented him to Aeacus; the latter delivered
54 15| Aeacus; the latter delivered him to Menander his freedman,
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