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For instance, he calls Ptolemy Fortunae pudor crimenque deorum; he arraigns the gods as caring more for vengeance than liberty; he calls Septimius a disgrace to the gods, the death of Pompey a tale at which heaven ought to blush; he speaks of the expression on Pompey's venerable face as one of anger against the gods, of the stone that marks his tomb as an indictment against heaven, and hopes that it may soon be considered as false a witness of his death as Crete is to that of Jove; he makes young Pompey, speaking of his father's death, say: "Whatever insult of fate has scattered his limbs to the winds, I forgive the gods that wrong, it is of what they have left that I complain;" saddest of all, he gives us that tremendous epigram:
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