 | Steven Fine, Leah Bierman Fine - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 60 pages
...the Romans nor anyone else but only God. We must not choose slavery now! For we were the first of all to revolt, and shall be the last to break off the struggle. Let our possessions and the whole fortress go up in flames: it will be a bitter blow to the Romans... | |
 | Devin Sper - History - 2004 - 401 pages
...mean the end of everything if we fall alive into the hands of the Romans. For we were the first of all to revolt, and shall be the last to break off the...us this privilege that we can die nobly and as free men, unlike others who were unexpectedly defeated. In our case it is evident that daybreak will end... | |
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... At such a time we must not disgrace ourselves: hitherto we have never submitted to slavery, even when it brought no danger with it: we must not choose slavery now, and with it penalties that will mean the end of everything if we fall alive into the... 