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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: draught.
The tetrarch had fallen upon his knees before the proconsul, saying
that he was grieved beyond words not to have known sooner of the
favour of his presence within those domains; had he been aware of the
approach of his distinguished guest, he would have issued a command
that every person along the route should place himself at the
proconsul's orders. Of a surety, the proconsul's family was descended
direct from the goddess Vitellia. A highway, leading from the
Janiculum to the sea, still bore their name. Questors and consuls were
innumerable in that great family; and as for the noble Lucius, now his
honoured guest, it was the duty of the whole people to thank him, as
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