On Fri, 16 May 1997, tzeruch@ceddec.com wrote:

On Thu, 15 May 1997, Huge Cajones Remailer wrote:

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"All that matters is how we die: shall we offer our bodies helplessly, like cattle, to the knife, or, refusing passively to await the end shall we turn the strength of our anger to one last battle, til, daring and doing, we fall, drenched with their blood, amongst the heaped bodies and weapons of our dying enemies?" -- Livy Book XXV

They couldn't move with their wealth out of the way, so the alternatives were limited.

The passage above appears in the discussion of the betrayal to the Carthaginians of the Roman commander Gracchus by his "friend" Flavus Gracchus makes this declaration to his men before they fought their enemies to the death. The protection of personal wealth was only weakly connected with the events described. Dr. Roberts