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Chap. 24. ven hundred Citizens. Nor were they of the meaner sort; but one hundred and forty of them were Senators. Nor do I touch upon those infinite slaughters that were usually acted either by his permission or command. So that not undeservedly those words burst from Quintus Catulus with whom at length shall we live; if in Warr we kill armed Men, and in peace the disarmed. But shortly after; this same Sylla was imitated by his Disciples: I mean the triumvirs, who in like manner proscribed three hundred Senators, and above two thousand Roman Knights. O wickedness! A greater cruelty than this the Sun in all its travels from the East unto the West, did never yet behold; nor is like to do hereafter. If you please you may look into Appianus; and there you may behold the various and deformed condition of those times: Of those that lay hid, and fled; of those that stopped their flight, and halled them forth: Rh