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They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up: They shook, they stared as white's their shirt: Them it was their poison hurt. -- I tell the tale that I heard told. Mithradates, he died old. -A.E. Housman

Either make yourself stronger than the Romans, or obey them.