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ImperiumBut from you, Catulus, and from all of you, I want nothing, and if all you wish to do is insult me, I bid you a good evening.БЂ«He spun around and began walking toward the door, with me in tow, and I guess that must have felt to him like the longest walk he ever took, because we had almost reached the shadowy antechamber-and with it, surely, the black void of political oblivion-when a voice (it was that of Lucullus himself) shouted out, БЂњRead it back!БЂ«Cicero halted, and we both turned around. БЂњRead it back,БЂ«repeated Lucullus. БЂњWhat Catulus said just now.БЂ«Cicero nodded at me, and I fumbled for my notebook. БЂњБЂIf what I have read here is true,БЂ™БЂ«I began, reciting in that flat, strange way of stenography being read back, БЂњБЂthe state is threatened with civil war as a result of a criminal conspiracy if what I have read is false it is the wickedest forgery in our history for my own part I do not believe it is true because I do not believe such a record could have been produced by a living hand-БЂ™БЂ«БЂњHe could have memorized that,БЂ«objected Catulus ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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