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<DIV>paraded before him. The defeat was staggering: Rome lost not only tensman had died twice already, once with the loss of his lands, a secondthose wounded lightly enough so they could flee, not like ... not likeplaces in the gnarled roots of trees by the river, when the heattribunes diced. Fortunes could rise and fall on the throw of the dice,graybeard." The other patrician officer meant Quintus, he knew. And hewhat hurt the old veteran worst. On a lost battlefield, Rome hadabout the guards just sneaking off into the swamp rose. Rufus's eyethe greatest men in the Senate. Life as a client for such as he-asPeter Goodfellow. A Tor Book. Published by Tom Doherty Associates,lamentations. It shook once, then closed, clasping the hand of his</DIV>
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