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 Always trickily sliding through with the same old deception,— Tiresome as when poor Sisyphus reaches the top of his mountain Vainly to feel his burden go rolling back from his shoulders.

Suddenly C. Caesar appeared and began to claim him as a slave. He produced witnesses who had seen Claudius getting thrashed by him with whips, with rods, and with his fists. The man was adjudged to C. Caesar; Caesar presented him to Aeacus; the latter delivered him to Menander his freedman, to be his law-clerk.