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CHAPTER XXXVI
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87.] says the second.

And the third, speaking of the civil wars betwixt Caesar and Pompey, "Victrix causa diis placuit, set victa Catoni." ["The victorious cause blessed the gods, the defeated one Cato.
-- "Lucan, i.

128.] And the fourth, upon the praises of Caesar: "Et cuncta terrarum subacta, Praeter atrocem animum Catonis." ["And conquered all but the indomitable mind of Cato." -- Horace, Od., ii.

1, 23.] And the master of the choir, after having set forth all the great names of the greatest Romans, ends thus: "His dantem jura Catonem." ["Cato giving laws to all the rest."-- AEneid, viii.

670.].


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