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| 13 | 50 | In a few View more quotes about moments">moments the guards had divided us into teams of four, harnessing our yokes together with chains. |
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| 13 | 47 | Squeals of anticipation greeted this announcement but I had little time to listen, for I was jerked roughly to my feet. |
| 13 | 48 | "First," said the voice, "there will be the Contests of Oxen". |
| 13 | 49 | There were perhaps forty yoked wretches in the arena. |
| 13 | 50 | In a few moments the guards had divided us into teams of four, harnessing our yokes together with chains. |
| 13 | 51 | Then, with their whips, they drove us to a set of large blocks of quarried granite, weighing perhaps a ton apiece, from the sides of which protruded heavy iron rings. |
| 13 | 52 | More chains fixed each team to its own block. |
| 13 | 53 | The course was indicated to us. |