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“Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Cato. Act ii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 23e0962a6b6b16490de9e47f983900b047ca0cb9c4a959eabfbd931fed190b24
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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