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"I ought to have carried her off! " Matho said in the evening to Spendius. "I should have seized her, and torn her from her house! No one would have dared to touch me!"
Spendius was not listening to him. Stretched on his back he was taking delicious rest beside a large jar filled with honey-coloured water, into which he would dip his head from time to time in order to drink more copiously.