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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome

Note 49 — IV

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Cæsar on this occasion is said to have advised his soldiers to aim at the faces of Pompey's cavalry, who, being composed principally of the young noblemen of Rome, dreaded a scar in the face more than death itself.

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