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Hypatia

CHAPTER II: THE DYING WORLD
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Well, there will be less loss to the empire if I have to crucify a dozen or two, as I positively will, the next riot.

It is really a great comfort to a statesman that the masses are so well aware that they deserve hanging, and therefore so careful to prevent any danger of public justice depopulating the province.

But how go on the schools ?' Hypatia shook her head sadly.
'Ah, boys will be boys....

I plead guilty myself.

Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.


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