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My luck, Magnus, has overthrown your good-fortune. For what did you receive from the ill-starred house of Crassus except the diminution of your greatness?

Vicit, Magne, felicitatem tuam mea fortuna. Quid enim ex funesta Crassorum domo recipiebas nisi ut minueretur magnitudo tua?

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Quoted by Livy, Commenta Bernensia, Scholium ad Lucan, Pharsalia, X, 471

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