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Updated: May 17, 2025

Nor are the loftier graces of composition wanting. The speeches of Curio rise into eloquence. Petreius's despair at the impending desertion of his army is powerfully drawn, and the contrast, brief but effective, between the Pompeians' luxury and his own army's want of common necessaries, assumes all the grandeur of a moral warning.

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius