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Life of Cicero

CHAPTER XII
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Livy speaks of a "Triumviratus"-- or rather two such offices exercised by one man--ix., 46.

We remember, too, that wretch whom Horace gibbeted, Epod.

iv.: "Sectus flagellis hic triumviralibus." But the word, though in common use, was not applied to this conspiracy.
[238] Ad Att., lib.ii., 3: "Is affirmabat, illum omnibus in rebus meo et Pompeii consilio usurum, daturumque operam, ut cum Pompeio Crassum conjungeret.

Hic sunt haec.

Conjunctio mihi summa cum Pompeio; si placet etiam cum Caesare; reditus in gratiam cum inimicis, pax cum multitudine; senectulis otium.


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