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Tacitus, The Histories, Volumes I and II

Note 90 — BOOK III

W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Fyfe translation

The words were either attributed wrongly to Antonius or were supposed to be spoken in answer to his question, 'Are the furnaces not lit?' In either case they were taken to apply not to the heating of the baths but to the burning of the town.

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