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were saved from ruin. Cyrus in his^ ln g speech to his sons, fays the foul in sleepec omes more divine, and sees as st were intotUr ity(o). Peticius } a Roman pilot, the nightthe defeat of Pharsalia, dreamt he sawfftpey } not as he had often seen him in° me i but sad and dejected, coming forward^ speaking to him.

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