Consentaneo vocis iactu C. Cassii aurem Fortuna pervellit, quem orantibus Rhodiis ne ab eo cunctis deorum simulacris spoliarentur Solem a se relinqui respondere voluit, ut rapacissimi victoris insolentiam dicti tumore protraheret.
By a similar utterance Fortune pinched the ear of C. Cassius. When the Rhodians begged him not to despoil them of all their statues of the gods, she made him reply that he was leaving the Sun, compounding the insolence of a rapacious conqueror by the arrogance of the speech.
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