With them the trumpet sounded, from them the word was taken, they sat upon the tribunal of Scipio, upon whom the lictor attended, for them the crowd was cleared away as they moved along, before them the fasces with the axes were carried.

When showers of stones descend, lightnings are darted from the heavens, and animals give birth to monsters, you consider these things as prodigies.

This is a prodigy which can be expiated by no victims, by no supplications, without the blood of those men who have dared to commit so great a crime.
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"Now, though villany is never guided by reason, yet so far as it could exist in so nefarious a transaction, I would fain know what was your design.

Formerly, a legion which was sent to garrison Rhegium, wickedly put to the sword the principal inhabitants and kept possession of that opulent city through a space of ten years; on account of which enormity the entire legion, consisting of four thousand men, were beheaded in the forum at Rome.