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A Friend of Caesar

CHAPTER XVIII
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But I would not take up their sorrows for all their wealth." "True," and Demetrius stared down into the inky water.

"It will not give back those who are gone forever.

Achilles could ask Hephaestus for his armour, but he could not put breath into the body of Patroclus.
_Plutus_ and _Cratus_[162] are, after all, but weaklings.

_A!_ This is an unequal world!" [162] Riches and strength.
When Agias fell asleep that night, or rather that morning, on a hard seaman's pallet, two names were stirring in his heart, names inextricably connected: Cornelia, whom he had promised Quintus Drusus to save from Ahenobarbus's clutches, and Artemisia.

In the morning the yacht, having run her sixteen miles to Ostia, stood out to sea, naught hindering.
* * * * * It was two months later when Quintus Drusus reentered Rome, no more a fugitive, but a trusted staff officer of the lawfully appointed dictator Julius Caesar.


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