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4Accordingly, when they were come to their wine, and were pledging “Victory to Brutus,” and “Liberty to the Romans,” wishing to animate them still more, Brutus called for a larger beaker, and then, when he had received it, without any ostensible reason, recited this verse:—
“But I am slain by baleful Fate and Leto’s son.”[25]
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Notes
[25] Patroclus to Hector, Iliad, xvi. 849. Leto's son was Apollo, and the name was thought to mean Destroyer.