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And for Clement, he let Minucianus go when he was brought to him, and, with many other of the senators, affirmed the action was right, and commended the virtue of those that contrived it, and had courage enough to execute it; and said that "tyrants do indeed please themselves and look big for a while, upon having the power to act unjustly; but do not however go happily out of the world, because they are hated by the virtuous; and that Caius, together with all his unhappiness, was become a conspirator against himself, before these other men who attacked him did so; and by becoming intolerable, in setting aside the wise provision the laws had made, taught his dearest friends to treat him as an enemy; insomuch that although in common discourse these conspirators were those that slew Caius, yet that, in reality, he lies now dead as perishing by his own self."
Various plans proposed for destroying Caligula. Final determination. The three days festival. Brief conversation. The recess. Chærea's duty. The plan seems likely to fail. Chærea's ambuscade. Minucianus. Adroit management of the conspirators. The Asiatic boys. Chærea strikes Caligula down. End of a despot. General joy in the palace. Savage exultation of the conspirators. Cæsonia and her child.
Minucianus accordingly dissembled his anxiety and agitation of mind still a little longer, but presently, watching an opportunity when the emperor's attention was otherwise engaged, he rose, and, assuming an unconcerned and careless air, he walked out of the theater.
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