"We are told that one of the centurions sent to Rome by Caesar, as he stood in front of the senate house and learned that the senate would not give Caesar an extension of his term of command, slapped the handle of his sword and said: "But this will give it.""
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Plutarch, Life of Julius Caesar, sec. 29 (tr. Bernadotte Perrin, vol. 7, 1919)
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