Page:Plutarch's Lives (Clough, v.5, 1865).djvu/374

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366 DiON AND BRUTUS. maaded the magistrates to come before him. He told them their town had broken their league, harboring an enemy. The magistrates at first simply denied the thing, and, not knowing what he meant, looked one upon an- other, when CsBsar, turning towards the statue and gathering his brows, said, " Pray, is not that our enemy who stands there ? " They were all in confusion, and had nothing to answer ; but he, smiling, much commended the Gauls, as who had been firm to their friends, though in adversity, and ordered that the statue should remain standing as he found it