The American Spectator

Another Perspective

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br> Which hurts, and is desir'd... /em> /blockquote> br> To br> blockquote> em>Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, br> That sucks the nurse asleep? /em> /blockquote> br> There may at first sight seem to be but little similarity between "the high Roman fashion" and the squalid death of "the D.C. Madam," dangling from a rafter in a down-market "retirement community." She had spoken on more than one occasion of being so unwilling to go back to prison -- as she was certain to do after her sentencing, scheduled for July 24 -- that she would sooner die, and this was simply her way of making good on her word. But of course Cleopatra was in a similar plight. It was not prison that she feared but what we might call the low Roman fashion of parading those who had been defeated in battle before the Roman mob in order to affirm the "triumph" of their conqueror. br> blockquote>

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