Plutarch's "lives"
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Pompey ran to meet her, and received her to his arms as she was just going to fall. While she hung upon his neck, she thus addressed him : " I see, my dear husband, your present unhappy condition is the effect of my ill fortune, and not yours. Alas ! how are you reduced to one poor vessel, who, before your marriage with Cornelia, traversed the sea with 500 galleys ! Why did you come to see me, and not rather leave me to my evil destiny, who have loaded you, too, with such a weight of calamities...? How happy had it been for me to have died before I heard that Publius, my first husband, was killed by the Parthians ! How wise, had I followed him to the grave, as I once intended ! What have I lived for since, but to bring misfortunes upon Pompey the Great?" Such, we are assured, was the speech of Cornelia ; and Pompey answered : " Till this moment, Cornelia, you have ex- perienced nothing but the smiles of fortune ; and it was she who deceived you, because she stayed with me longer than she commonly does with her favorites.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Pompey ran to meet her, and received her to his arms as she was just going to fall. While she hung upon his neck, she thus addressed him : " I see, my dear husband, your present unhappy condition is the effect of my ill fortune, and not yours. Alas ! how are you reduced to one poor vessel, who, before your marriage with Cornelia, traversed the sea with 500 galleys ! Why did you come to see me, and not rather leave me to my evil destiny, who have loaded you, too, with such a weight of calamities...? How happy had it been for me to have died before I heard that Publius, my first husband, was killed by the Parthians ! How wise, had I followed him to the grave, as I once intended ! What have I lived for since, but to bring misfortunes upon Pompey the Great?" Such, we are assured, was the speech of Cornelia ; and Pompey answered : " Till this moment, Cornelia, you have ex- perienced nothing but the smiles of fortune ; and it was she who deceived you, because she stayed with me longer than she commonly does with her favorites.
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