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Andivius Hedulio

CHAPTER VII
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He'll soon decorate a gibbet, impaled there and spiked there too.

You'll see.

And still less will I tolerate lawlessness among men of property and position.
The past actions of you magnates I dislike.

As to the future I may say that my agents were at your morning reception yesterday, Vedius, and heard and reported your covert threats to Hedulio: likewise two were at your house, Satronius, and heard and reported your open threats.
"Now I perfectly understand what you two implied.

You threatened Andivius with assassination, if he returned to his estates in Sabinum or if he so much as remained in Rome.
"Beware! Be warned! Take care! I am easy-going enough, but I am Caesar and I'll brook no trenching on my personal prerogatives or my legal authority.
I have the tribunician power for life, I am commissioned thereby to forbid anything in the Republic and to see to it that no magistrate or citizen oversteps the limits of what is permitted him.


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