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“When some were saying that if Cæsar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, "for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot."”
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- Source:
- Life of Pompey.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 63e71db5104abd46982d4d66c8e82284b75c95493bf3e256603740e794b7debb
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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