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[6] Instabat tyrannus: torque: illa pars etiam potest; subice ignes: in illa parte iam exaruit cruor; [p. 206] seca, uerbera, oculos lancina, fac iam ne uiro placeat matrix. PAPIRI FABIANI. Describam nunc ego cruciatus et miseram corporis patientiam inter tyrannica tormenta saeuientia: extincti sanguine refouebantur ignes; in hoc desinebatur torqueri aliquando, ut saepius posset. Exquisita uerbera, lamnae, eculeus, quidquid antiqua saeuitia inuenerat, quidquid et noua adiecerat— quid amplius dicam? et tyrannus torquebat et cum de tyrannicidio quaereret. 0 nos felices! quod nullis hausta puerperiis fuit, tacuit. tunc silentio tyrannicidium fecit, certe tyrannicidam. Conuolsis laceratisque membris nec adhuc sufficientibus non dimissa est ex arce,

Annaei Senecae Oratorum et rhetorum sententiae divisiones colores. Seneca the Elder. Adolf Gottlieb Kiessling. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1872. Keyboarding.

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