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“Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Caius Marius.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e9abf49039fb1113a0465d51b6bfd4ff84dc7f9f65f3f8635f84f093655d7475
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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