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The historian states that all the spectators admired and lauded Afranius; as for me, I was inclined to condemn him on general grounds he had all but given a catalogue of sauces and dishes, and shed tears over the memory of departed cakes , but his capital offence was that he had not cut the historian-tragedian's throat before he left this life himself.

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