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"That's a slight mitigating factor, although it doesn't help anyone who's been inconvenienced by this."— The Chronicle Herald - Front Page Stories
The power of the prćtor was a reed beneath the whirlwind; still, at his word the guards had drawn themselves along the lower benches, on which the upper classes sat separate from the vulgar.— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
The leading ones among them were Nes´tor, the wisest man of his day, to whom every one came for good advice; and U-lys´ses, the crafty or sly king, who was so clever that he could easily outwit all men There were also A´jax, the strongest man of his time; Thersander, the new king of Thebes, who came with the Epigoni; and Ag-a-mem´non, King of Mycenć, Menelaus' brother, who was chosen chief of the whole army The Greeks never began any undertaking without consulting the oracles to find out how it would end.— The Story of the Greeks
At Rome, as the intervention of the Prćtor was at first dictated by simple concern for the safety of the state, it is likely that in the earliest times it was proportioned to the difficulty which it attempted to get rid of.— Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society

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