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It had grown to twenty when the gods were thanked for the victory over Vercingetorix. Now for this half-finished affair fifty was hardly enough. When the time was over, Antony and Lepidus had joined their forces triumphantly. Pansa and Hirtius were dead, and Decimus Brutus had fled, and had probably been murdered. Nothing increases so out of proportion to the occasion as the granting of honors.
What has become, O Carus Pansa, of those noble exhortations of yours, by which the senate was roused, and the Roman people stimulated, not only hearing but also learning from you that there is nothing more disgraceful to a Roman than slavery?
There was no mistake about it; you saw the deep ruts of their wheels along the rugged street; nay, you saw the wearing of their very feet on the comically narrow pavements. And their life had been as different as possible from that of men in Manchester. Everything excited him to merriment. "Now, this is the house of old Pansa no doubt an ancestor of friend Sancho" with a twinkle in his eye.
A single story in height, it contained only four rooms, and on a reduced scale resembled the typical house of Pansa, except that the flat roof rose in the center to a dome.
Therefore, I give my vote, "That of those men who are with Marcus Antonius, those who abandon his army, and come over either to Caius Pansa or Aulus Hirtius the consuls; or to Decimus Brutus, imperator and consul elect, or to Caius Caesar, propraetor, before the first of March next, shall not be liable to prosecution for having been with Antonius.
As therefore, O Caius Pansa, you have done well in other respects, so you have acted admirably in exhorting us this day to pay honour to Servius Sulpicius, and in yourself making an eloquent oration in his praise.
It was the grated den of the lion! 'By Venus, how warm it is! said Fulvia; 'yet there is no sun. Would that those stupid sailors could have fastened up that gap in the awning! 'Oh! it is warm, indeed. I turn sick I faint! said the wife of Pansa; even her experienced stoicism giving way at the struggle about to take place.
The death of Pansa was so fully believed to have been caused by undue means, that Glyco, his surgeon, was placed in custody, on a suspicion of having poisoned his wound. And to this, Aquilius Niger adds, that he killed Hirtius, the other consul, in the confusion of the battle, with his own hands.
After hours of wandering about with their guide, seeing the points of most interest, the beautiful houses recently excavated, the homes of Glaucus, of Pansa, of Sallust, of Orpheus, of Diomedes and very many others; the forum, temples, and amphitheatre they sat long amid the ruins, looking at the fatal mountain, so close at hand, and the desolation at its foot, and meditated upon the terrors of that fearful night.
'It is like a woman's "No", added Glaucus: 'it cools, but to inflame the more. 'When is our next wild-beast fight? said Clodius to Pansa. 'It stands fixed for the ninth ide of August, answered Pansa: 'on the day after the Vulcanalia we have a most lovely young lion for the occasion. 'Whom shall we get for him to eat? asked Clodius. 'Alas! there is a great scarcity of criminals.
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