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Article: Brothers' blood.
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- Calliope
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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Fighting back bitter tears, the old man watched as his only surviving son stood before the angry Roman crowds. Hours earlier, the young warrior had been cheered as the savior of the city. Now, with one brutal act, the younger man had doomed himself to disgrace and death. And his grieving father stood to lose the last of his four children in a single day of triumph and horror.
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