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Sunday, August 29, 2010 - 12:19 PM
The Senate was then consulted and sentences of exile were passed
on Cassius and Silanus. As to Lepida, the emperor was to decide. Cassius
was transported to the island of Sardinia, and he was quietly left to old
age. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire was removed to Ostia, whence, it was pretended, he was to
be conveyed to Naxos. He was afterwards confined in a town of Apulia named
Barium. There, as he was wisely enduring a most undeserved calamity, he
was suddenly seized by a centurion sent to slay him. When the man advised
him to sever his veins, he replied that, though he had resolved in his
heart to die, he would not let a cutthroat have the glory of the service.
The centurion seeing that, unarmed as he was, he was very powerful, and
more an enraged than a frightened man, ordered his soldiers to overpower
him. And Silanus failed not to resist and to strike blows, as well as he
could with his bare hands, till he was cut down by the centurion, as though
in battle, with wounds in his breast.
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