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[CRASSUS IN PARTHIA. B. C. 53]
Go then, Valerius. Let the legions know, / That I will answer this new embassy / Within the hour. They will mutiny, / If I refuse these terms. What shall I do? / _What shall I do? _ The trap is plain enough / To me; but they, they only see the rough, / Long road and the red, ever-circling cloud / Of horsemen, raining arrows on them there.