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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 136

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tters of debt, andrefused to be smoothed over, or to submit to remain under irons.Being in want of a leader, they seized on T. Quinctius, an aged veteran,whose head was so completely bowed down, that he could not do otherwisethan bow when asked if he would lead them as their general. The nodof… … *>T\Jm^ A Scare-crow. frightening his antagonist. The armies at length met, when theinsurgents, led by a shivering veteran, began to follow their leader, andto shake with fear, which induced Valerius to offer them terms, and thequaking Quinctius was the first to recommend his troops to accept…

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