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Do you want to live a long busy life, with honour at the end of it?"
"Yes."
"Then exaggerate your limp, stammer deliberately, sham sickness frequently, let your wits wander, jerk your head and twitch with your hands on all public or semi-public occasions. If you could see as much as I can see, you would know that this was your only hope of safety and eventual glory."
I said: "Livy's story of Brutus-the first Brutus, I mean -may be unhistorical, but it's apt. Brutus pretended to be a half-wit, too, to be better able to restore popular liberty."
"What's that? Popular liberty? You believe in that? I thought that phrase had died out among the younger generation."
"My father and grandfather both believed in it—"
"Yes," Pollio interrupted sharply, "that's why they died."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that's why they-were poisoned."
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