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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: innumerable in that great family; and as for the noble Lucius, now his
honoured guest, it was the duty of the whole people to thank him, as
the conqueror of the Cliti and the father of the young Aulus, now
returning to his own domain, since the East was the country of the
gods. These hyperboles were expressed in Latin, and Vitellius accepted
them impassively.
He replied that the great Herod was the honour and glory of the
nation; that the Athenians had chosen him to direct the Olympian
games; that he had built temples in the honour of Augustus; had been
patient, ingenious, terrible; and was faithful to all the Caesars.
Between the two marble columns, with bronze capitals, Herodias could
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