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happiness that any outrage in a man's career has 

 shattered, let alone so great an outrage as that. For 

 the rest I know not whether it counts to the credit of 

 our morals or increases tlie anguish of our indignation 

 that among all the many MetclH that criminal 

 audacity of Gaius Atinius for ever went un- 

 punished. 



XLV, Also in the case of his late Majesty Augustus, cttequered 

 whom the whole of mankind enrols in tlie Ust of Augustua. 

 happy men, if all the facts were carefully weiglied, 

 grcat revolutions of man's lot could be discovered: 

 his failure ■with his uncle " in regard to the office of 

 Master of the Horse, when the candidate opposing 

 him, Lepidus, was preferred; the hatred caused 

 by the proscription ; his association in the trium- 

 virate with the wickedest citizens, and that not ^vith 

 an equal share of power but with Antony pre- 

 dominant ; liis flight in the battle of Phihppi when 

 he was suffering from disease, and his three days' 

 hiding in a marsh, in spite of his illness and his 

 swollen dropsical condition (as stated bv Agrippa 

 and Maecenas) ; his shipwreck ofF Sicily, and there 

 ako another period of hiding in a cave ; his entreaties 

 to Proculeius to kill him, in the naval rout when a 

 detachnient of the enemy was ah-eady pressing close 

 at hand ; the anxiety of the struggle at Perugia, the 

 alarm of the Battle of Actium, his fail from a tower in 

 the Pannonian Wars ; and all the mutinies in his 

 troops, all his critical illnesses, his suspicion of 

 Marcellus's ambitions, the disgrace of Agrippa's 

 banishment, the many plots against his life, the 

 charge of causing the death of his children * ; and his 

 sorrows that were not due solely to bereavement,his 

 daughter's<^ adultery and the disclosure of her plots 



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