the Roman camp and killed many? Or when Rome was driven, by the vio- lence of another intolerable plague, to send to Epidaurus for AEsculapius as a god of medicine; since the frequent adulteries of Jupiter in his youth had not perhaps left this king of all who so long reigned in the Capitol, any leisure for the study of medicine? Or when, at one time, the Lucanians, Brutians, Sam- nites, Tuscans, and Senonian Gauls conspired against Rome, and first slew her ambassadors, then overthrew an army under the praetor, putting to the sword 13,000 men, besides the commander and seven tribunes? Or when the people, after the serious and long-continued disturbances at Rome, at last plundered the city and withdrew to Janiculus; a danger so grave, that Hortensius was created dictator,–an office which they had recourse to only in extreme emer- gencies; and he, having brought back the people, died while yet he retained his office,–an event without precedent in the case of any dictator, and which was a shame to those gods who had now AEsculapius among them?
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