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But they accomplished nothing; for Tiberius, striving to support a measure which was honourable and just with an eloquence that would have adorned even a meaner cause, was formidable and invincible, whenever, with the people crowding around the rostra, he took his stand there and pleaded for the poor. The wild beasts that roam over Italy, he would say, have every one of them a cave or lair to lurk in;
But they accomplished nothing; for Tiberius, striving to support a measure which was honourable and just with an eloquence that would have adorned even a meaner cause, was formidable and invincible, whenever, with the people crowding around the rostra, he took his stand there and pleaded for the poor. The wild beasts that roam over Italy, he would say, have every one of them a cave or lair to lurk in;
Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. Plutarch. Bernadotte Perrin (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1921.
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