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Such was the terror inspired by these animals that the Roman soldier would not stand before them until a year or two later, in Sicily, the Consul Cecilius showed how they could not only be repulsed but turned back on their own army by the use of javelins and arrows.
"Nay," said Cecilius, "Drusus is afraid of a laugh, but I am not, my Messala." "Speak thou, then." "Well, we stopped the faction, and " "Offered them a wager," said Drusus, relenting, and taking the word from the shadow's mouth. "And ha, ha, ha! one fellow with not enough skin on his face to make a worm for a carp stepped forth, and ha, ha, ha! said yes. I drew my tablets.
In 1632 a charter granted by Charles I to Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore, founded the palatinate colony of Maryland. To understand the nature of this charter, we must observe that among the counties of England there were three whose rulers from an early time were allowed special privileges.
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