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I shall be trussed up and trounced, if I am not somewhat mistaken. But what we were just now advising Antipho to do, the same we must do ourselves, Phaedria.
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PHAEDRIA
Away with your musts; rather do you command me what I am to do.
GETA
Do you remember what were your words formerly
on our entering upon this project, with the view of protecting yourselves from ill consequences—that their cause was just, clear, unanswerable, and most righteous?
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GETA
Well then, now there’s need of that plea, or of one still better and more plausible, if such there can be.
PHAEDRIA
I’ll use my best endeavors.
GETA
Do you then accost him first; I’ll be here
in re-serve,Here in reserve. Succenturiatus. The succenturiati were, properly, men intrusted to fill up vacancies in the centuries or companies, when thinned by battle. by way of reinforcement, if you give ground at all.
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