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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 13

Note 146 — TRANSLATIONS FROM JUVENAL. (continued 3)

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Demosthenes and Tully both died for their oratory; Demosthenes gave himself poison, to avoid being carried to Antipater, one of Alexander's captains, who had then made himself master of Athens. Tully was murdered by M. Antony's order, in return for those invectives he made against him.

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