NP [?] Three Consecutive Words

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Tue Nov 27 13:43:04 CST 2007


>From the Apocolocyntosis, pages 146 and 147:

He killed in one household Crassus, 
Magnus, Scribonia, the Tristionias, and Assario; 
and they were aristocrats too, and Crassus besides 
so stupid that he was even qualified to reign. 
Now do you want to make this man a god ? Look 
at his body, born when the gods were angry. And 
finally, if he can say three consecutive words 
together, he can have me as his slave. Who will 
worship this god ? Who will believe in him ? As 
long as you make such gods as he, nobody will 
believe you are gods yourselves.

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