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"The conference now began, and Achillas's offer of hospitality must have been very warm and well calculated to inspire confidence, for a tall lady it was Cornelia, the wife of the Imperator waved her hand to him in token of gratitude." Here the speaker paused, drew a long breath, and, pressing his hand to his brow, continued "What follows alas, that it was my fate to witness the dreadful scene!
A company of about one hundred men. Drusus uttered a deep and silent curse on himself for the mad bravado that led him to leave the palace with but thirty men; why had he not waited to assemble more? He could ride over the mob; to master Achillas's disciplined forces was otherwise. A freedman came running down from the roof, crying out that it was already on fire.
The worthy man declared that he had lighted on nothing less than a plot to murder the Romans, one and all, by admitting Achillas's soldiery to the palace enclosure, while all the banqueters were helpless with drugged wine. Pratinas, who had been supposed to be at Pelusium, Cerrinius had caught in retired conference with Pothinus, planning the arrangement of the feast.
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