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| 16 | 1137 | I View more quotes about thought">thought it possible that any guards who might have the duty of supervising our exit from the city, or perhaps the duties of inspecting or searching us, might, given the numbers involved, be somewhat lax or a bit less diligent in their efforts by the time we reached them, and we were not so far back that, the guards perhaps perking up, the end of the group in sight, we might find ourselves the target of some burst of compensatory ardor. |
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| 16 | 1134 | There were some two or three hundred of us. |
| 16 | 1135 | We were some two-thirds of the way, or so, back in the group. |
| 16 | 1136 | This seemed to me a good position. |
| 16 | 1137 | I thought it possible that any guards who might have the duty of supervising our exit from the city, or perhaps the duties of inspecting or searching us, might, given the numbers involved, be somewhat lax or a bit less diligent in their efforts by the time we reached them, and we were not so far back that, the guards perhaps perking up, the end of the group in sight, we might find ourselves the target of some burst of compensatory ardor. |
| 16 | 1138 | We were now beyond the lines of suspended bodies outside the Semnium. |
| 16 | 1139 | I was not sorry to leave them behind me. |
| 16 | 1140 | We continued to move slowly along the avenue, toward the great gate. |