Come let us be off.
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Stay a moment! I see a vast hubbub in the hippodrome; what isthe meaning of it, I beseech you?” That?—oh, nothing! The noble and free citizens of Epidaphnebeing, as they declare, well satisfied of the faith, valor,wisdom, and divinity of their king, and having, moreover, beeneye-witnesses of his late superhuman agility, do think it no morethan their duty to invest his brows (in addition to the poeticcrown) with the wreath of victory in the footrace—a wreath whichit is evident he must obtain at the celebration of the nextOlympiad, and which, therefore, they now give him in advance.
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