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Rh  persons to death of her own accord, to gratify either her avarice or revenge. Antony caused the heads of the principal to be set on a table before him, that he might feast his eyes with the sight. Amongst them was that of Cicero, which he ordered to be fixed on the rostrum, where that great orator had often so gloriously defended his country; but first, Fulvia took the head, spat upon it, and placing it on her lap, drew out the tongue, which she pierced several times with her bodkin, uttering all the while the most opprobrious and reviling language. "Behold," says Mr. Bayle, "a woman of a strange species. There are some villains whom we are almost forced to admire, because they shew a certain greatness of soul in their crimes; here is nothing to be seen but brutality, baseness, and cowardice, and one cannot help conceiving an indignation full of contempt."

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herself in a vicious age by exemplary wisdom and modesty. After the tragical death of her husband, she passed her days in mourning and retirement. F.C. GALLI