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Curio's treachery is pilloried in the epigram, "Emere omnes, hic vendidit Urbem." The mingled cowardice and folly of servile obedience is nobly expressed by his reproach to the people: "Usque adeone times, quem tu facis ipse timendum?" An author who could write like this had studied rhetoric to some purpose.
By which he means reputation; like Cicero, who says that he would employ his solitude and retirement from public affairs to acquire by his writings an immortal life. "Usque adeone Scire tuum, nihil est, nisi to scire hoc, sciat alter?"
Usque adeone mori miserum est? Say, is it then so sad a thing to die?
Whom do not the words of Turnus move? Fugientem hoec terra videbit; Usque adeone mori miserum est?
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