Cur venisset, neque augendis militum stipendiis neque adlevandis laboribus, denique nulla bene faciendi licentia? At hercule verbera et necem cunctis permitti.
Why had he come, if he was neither to raise the pay of the troops nor to ease their burdens'if, in short, he had no leave to do a kindness? Yet death and the lash, Heaven was their witness, were within the competence of anyone!
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