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  When as the Barbarians de∣manded mony of Sertorius go∣ing into Sp••ine for his passage through their country, such as were with him grew into chol∣ler, saying that is was too great a shame and in∣dignity that a Proconsull of the people of Rome sh••ld pay a tribute vnto those wicked Barbarians, but Sertorius re∣garded not the shame which they pretended, but answered. That hee bought time, which whoso∣euer aspired to great matters, should hold most deere, & so contented the Barbarians with mony, after which he made such speed as he seazed vpon Spaine. Plu.

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