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We have seen your victory
terminated at once by the result of your battles; we have seen no sword
unsheathed in the city. The citizens whom we have lost were stricken down by
the force of Mars, not by evil feelings let loose by victory;
so that no man can doubt that Caius Caesar would even raise many from the
dead if that were possible, since he does preserve all those of that army
that he can.
But of the other party I will say no more than what we were all afraid of at the time, namely, that theirs would have been too angry a victory.
