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[SERTORIUS SPEAKS. B. C. 72]
Twelve years! Twelve years of striving! and at last / My power is -- secure? Still Pompey lives / And has an army and Metellus strives / To wipe out his defeats. The net is cast: / Cast, and draws ever tighter: and my men / Grumble and mutter, near to mutiny.