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besides, that this suspicion is not fixed upon Capito for the first time now; that he has gained many infamous
victories; but that this is the first very splendid 1 one which he has gained at Rome; that there is no manner of committing murder in which he has not
murdered many men; many by the sword, many by poison. I can even tell you of one man
whom, contrary to the custom of our ancestors, he threw from the bridge into the
Tiber, when he was not sixty years of age;
2 and if
he comes forward, or when he comes forward, for I know that he will come forward, he
shall hear of him.
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1 The Latin word is lemniscatus, literally, adorned with ribbons hanging down all from a garland or crown. Palma lemniscata is a palm branch (i.e. a token of victory,) given to a gladiator or general when the victory was very remarkable. Cicero understands it of a murder which was connected with very great gains. Riddle, Lat. Dict. v. Lemniscatus.
2 There is a pun here on the word pons. Pons means not only a bridge, but also the platform over which men passed to give their votes at elections; and men above sixty had no votes, and all having none were called depontati or dejecti de ponte.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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