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A dear bright young girl called Sosia, who had been murdered as a consequence of the first mission I undertook for him murdered by his son Domitian, though of course we never mentioned that.
A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001
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Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images RAZED: Israeli soldiers stood guard near a Palestinian Bedouin woman Thursday after her family's shacks and tents near the Jewish settlement of Sosia, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, were destroyed by Israeli bulldozers.
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Thus metamorphosing himself face to face with the corpse, he contrived to achieve some likeness to his Sosia.
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"No," said Sosia, sturdily, "a slave once disobeying Arbaces is never heard of more."
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Sosia was her only hope, the only instrument with which she could tamper.
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Sosia in Amphytrion, &c. &c. To tell you how he acted them, is beyond the reach of criticism: but to tell you what effect his action had upon the spectator, is not impossible: this then is all you will expect from me, and hence I must leave you to guess at him.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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After that, what he wishes Sosia to do; that he put last in his original arrangement he now mentions last --
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A few hours later she was captured by Sosia and replaced in her cell.
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Working upon the superstition of her special guard Sosia, she manages to escape his vigilance for a time, and creeping along a dark passage she overhears the cries of the priest Calenus lately incarcerated in an adjoining dungeon cell.
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Nydia carefully prepared the epistle, but ere she placed it in the hands of Sosia she thus addressed him:
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