Fatal necessity  or, liberty regain'd. A tragedy: as it was once acted in Rome for the sake of freedom and virtue. Collected from Vertot's History of the revolutions in the Roman republick.

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Fatal necessity or, liberty regain'd. A tragedy: as it was once acted in Rome for the sake of freedom and virtue. Collected from Vertot's History of the revolutions in the Roman republick.