MARCUS: Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heav’n
Red with uncommon wrath to blast the man,
Who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin?

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman

Cato, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 20ff (1713)
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Of Julius Caesar and his overthrow of the Roman Republic.