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[29] And that these dramas should leave no awful 1 tragic effect untried, this also was added after the [p. 187] curtain had dropped. 2 Romanus, setting out to the Palace, brought with him Caecilius, who intended to accuse the judges of having been biased in favour of the province; and being received with favour by Merobaudes, 3 he had sought that some more witnesses whom he needed should be produced.

1 370 ff. A.D.

2 See xvi. 6, 3, note; here the meaning is different, since what follows was the exodium, or afterpiece, at the end of the tragedy. Hence the curtain was not put away, but raised (or, as we should say, lowered).

3 Consul in 377; he was then perhaps court-marshal.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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