Nam cum serperet in urbe infinitum malum idque manaret in dies latius, idemque bustum in foro facerent qui illam insepultam sepulturam effecerant, et cotidie magis magisque perditi homines cum sui[s] similibus servis tectis ac templis urbis minarentur, talis animadversio fuit Dolabellae cum in audacis sceleratosque servos, tum in impuros et nefarios liberos, talisque eversio illius exsecratae columnae ut mihi mirum videatur tam valde reliquum tempus ab illo uno die dissensisse.
For when a boundless infection was gaining ground in Rome and spreading wider and wider day by day, and when the authors of Caesars abortive burial were raising a tomb in the Forum, and when more and more desperados with slaves like themselves were daily threatening the houses and temples of our city, such was action taken by Dolabella in punishing not only the bold and criminal slaves but also the foul ruffians consisting of free men, such was his demolition of that accursed pillar that I find it strange that his subsequent record stands in such sharp contrast to that one days work.
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