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toe in the doorway of his bedroom just as he was 

 going out ; Gaius Aufidius wlio after he had gone out 

 hit his foot against something in the Comitium when 

 he was on his way to the senate. Also an envoy who 

 had pleaded the cause of Rhodes in the senate to 

 the general admiration, just as he wantcd to leave 

 the senate-house expired on tlie threshold ; Gnaeus 

 Baebius Tamphilus, who had liimself also held the 

 praetorship, dicd just aftcr asking his footman the 

 time ; Aulus Pompeius died on the Capitol after 

 paying reverence to the gods, Manius Juventius 

 Thalna the consul while offering sacrifice, Gaius 

 Servilius Pansa while standing at a shop in the 

 market-place, leaning on his brother Pubhus's arm, 

 at seven o'clock in the morning, Baebius the judge 

 while in the act of giving an order for enlargement 

 of bail, Marcus Terentius Corax while writing a note 

 in the market-place ; and moreover last year, a Knight 

 of Rome died while saying something in the ear of 

 an ex-consul, just in front of the ivory statue of Apollo 

 in the Forum of Augustus ; and, most remarkable of 

 all, the doctor Gaius JuUus died from passing the 

 probe through his eye while pom-ing in ointment, 

 the ex-consul Aulus Manhus Torquatus while helping 

 himself to a cake at dinner, Lucius fuccius, Sulla's 

 doctor, while drinking a draught of mead, Appius 

 Saufeius when he had drunk some mead and was 

 sucking an egg after coming back from the bath- 

 house, Publius Quintius Scapula when out to dinner 

 with Aquilius Gallus, Decimus Saufeius the clerk 

 when lunching at home. Cornelius Gallus, ex- 

 praetor, and Titus Hetereius Knight of Rome died 

 while with women ; and, cases remarked on by our 

 own generation, two members of the Order of Knight- 



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