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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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