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A boy who died a babe; but were he living

Can you make war? Have you alliances?
Bithynia, Pontus, Paphlagonia?
We have had our leagues of old with And grown to man and Sinnatus will'd

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There is my hand—if such a league there Would set him in the front rank of the

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True to the scent; and we have two- The glory and grief of battle won or lost Solders a race together-yea-tho' they

legg'd dogs

Among us who can smell a true occasion, And when to bark and how.

Synorix. My good Lord Sinnatus, I once was at the hunting of a lion. Roused by the clamour of the chase he

woke,

Came to the front of the wood-his monarch mane

Bristled about his quick ears-he stood

there

Staring upon the hunter. A score of

dogs

Gnaw'd at his ankles: at the last he felt The trouble of his feet, put forth one paw,

Slew four, and knew it not, and so remain'd

Staring upon the hunter: and this Rome Will crush you if you wrestle with her; then

Save for some slight report in her own Senate

Scarce know what she has done.

(Aside.) Would I could move him, Provoke him any way! (Aloud.) The Lady Camma,

Wise I am sure as she is beautiful,
Will close with me that to submit at once
Is better than a wholly-hopeless war,
Our gallant citizens murder'd all in vain,
Son, husband, brother gash'd to death in
vain,

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Too like to ruin himself, and you, and me!

Who else, with this black thunderbolt of Rome

Above him, would have chased the stag to-day

In the full face of all the Roman camp? A miracle that they let him home again, Not caught, maim'd, blinded him.

[Camma shudders. (Aside.) I have made her tremble. (Aloud.) I know they mean to torture him to death.

I dare not tell him how I came to know it;

I durst not trust him with-my serving Rome

To serve Galatia: you heard him on the

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Synorix. Will he let you plead for He should say this, that being Tetrarch

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Camma. Why no, he never touch'd | Which you shall see to-morrow.

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Earth with her shadow! I trust she will return.

These Romans dare not violate the Temple.

No, I must lure my game into the camp. A woman I could live and die for. What!

Die for a woman, what new faith is this?

I am not mad, not sick, not old enough To doat on one alone. Yes, mad for her,

Camma the stately, Camma the greathearted,

So mad, I fear some strange and evil chance

Coming upon me, for by the Gods I

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