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(53) records, that Fabius redeemed certain captives by the promise of a sum of money; which when the senate refused to confirm, he sold all the property he possessed, and with the produce paid down the stipulated sum, caring less to be thought poor in lands than poor in honesty.

My beloved, Fabius is Christ, who at the expence of life, ransomed mankind from eternal death.