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Murdered!—Who murdered him?

What has occurred was inevitable, my noble lord! Gallus Caesar madly misused his power here in the East. He was no longer content with his rank as Caesar. His conduct, both in Constantinople and elsewhere on his progress, showed clearly what was in his mind.

'Tis not his crime I would know, but the rest.

Oh, let me spare a brother's ears.

A brother's ears can bear what a son's ears have borne. Who killed him?

The tribune Scudilo, who escorted him, thought it advisable to have him executed.

Where? Not in Rome?

No, my lord; it happened on the journey thither,—in the city of Pola, in Illyria.

[Bowing himself.] The Emperor is great and righteous.—The last of the race, Gregory!—The Emperor Constantius is great.