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having accused the patricide and fratricide. After these things, when a little time had passed, the king also died, and the nation rose up against his
The Median seemed then to be after the Assyrian. This Arbaces, then, having come into conversation with Belesys, the ruler of Babylon, and being a fel
her sufferings, having learned beforehand that they were her children, embracing her mother, she both implored her to deliver her from her evils, and
a passion, pretending some of the servants, she pushed her father, who was bent over a jar of wine, headfirst and killed him. 8. That Aegisthus, havin
to Corinthus, from whom the city of Corinth gets its name, who was slain by the locals through a plot, Sisyphus, coming to his aid, punished the murde
but these, indeed these, I bring. And at the same time he shows both heads. He, being pleased, ordered him to ask for whatever he wanted in return fo
He, as they say, suspecting the noble character of the young man, did not wish to destroy him openly, since there was no cause, but in another way, by
Gyges ordered the man to lead. And he himself was driving the chariot for her, and somehow by divine will Gyges meets him at a bend in the road. The r
Concerning the war. And God said that helpers would come to them from Phrygia, who would both exact vengeance for the murder of Leodamas and deliver b
Cleonas brought him while he was still a boy, and one who excelled many in appearance and virtue. In time, Cypselus, wishing to return to Corinth, con
he undertook a policy of this sort: he made one board of eight probouloi, and from the rest he enrolled a council of 9 men. [SEEK IN THE ON POLITICS.]
he was in charge and he himself offered the cup to the king to drink. And he receives him eagerly and orders him to pour wine for the king's table-com
signifies wealth and power, just as the name also says. Quickly then Cyrus takes the man and ordered him to be with him and he obeyed. After this, he
being with children. Being very distressed at what had been done and even more angered, so that he no longer received Oebaras, he changed his mind aga
lying on the road, and that he should arm the other Persians as quickly as possible, as if the king 30 were commanding it for he did not reveal the t
having wounds they send up to the king. But Cyrus' men, having fought nobly, flee to Pasargadae, where their children and wives were. But Astyages, wh
and he did obeisance and said he was ready with even another much larger, if he should command and after him the Parthian and the Saka and the Bactri
He then praised the Apolloniates, and on assuming power, he bestowed upon them freedom and immunity from taxes and not a few other favors, making the
to appear pleasing, if he should concede so great a name and power to anyone at all, especially since his country was also eager and calling him to hi
They were led to attack the man by grievances that were not small, which had occurred both privately to each and publicly to all. For some, having a c
that the people also became invalid in the appointment of magistrates, and that they were given to him to give to whomever he wished, just as the decr
The story is that Antony did these things wishing to gratify that man, as he supposed, but courting for himself the hope that he might become an adopt
to appoint, on which those from the senate would meet to deliberate about matters he himself was about to introduce. And when the appointed day arrive
wounds, breathed his last. A countless cry arose, on the one hand, of those from the senate-house fleeing in terror, as many as did not participate in
in Pompey's portico. Decimus Brutus was the one getting these men ready, under the pretext of other business, wishing, as he said, to seize one of the
to both for then those who seemed to have been destroyed, taking courage again, drove back the victors Therefore, Caesar, even though dead, would ca
having broken off a certain part of Caesar's army, he himself also held power in Nearer Spain, holding the Celts who bordered on the upper sea but Lu
eagerly towards one another, some already being burdened by Antony's power, others out of piety towards Caesar and his successor, others for the sake
paradoxical, and asking what the report might be and what the man’s intention was, they advised him to get out of the way for those days, until these
who participated in the campaign and in the subsequent events. And these were Marcus Agrippa, Lucius Maecenas, Quintus Juventius, Marcus Modialius and
He took Cassandra as his wife in Troy, and she, having found a pretext, plots his death with Aegisthus her adulterer, who was himself of royal blood.
able to stop it. Therefore, while they were in confusion and preparing to do something, a certain Julius Proclus, an equestrian, having dressed himsel
and abolished the kingdom. 11. That in the time of Darius, king of the Persians, when Philip of Macedonia was reigning for twenty-one years and had su
Antiochus surnamed Theos but Seleucus, suspected of plotting against his father, is put to death. 20. That Demetrius was the son of Philip, king of t
they deprived them of the burdens they were carrying. And they offered the runaways none of the booty, but having become masters of much wealth themse
by a correction of what was amiss, he brought it back to the Roman order, having done nothing harsh or bitter to any of his subjects. He humbled Jugur
that Pompey's party opposed Caesar but that he, wishing to receive some extension of the appointed time, in order to subdue all the barbarians togeth
to be of the winning side, and holding in no account the misfortunes of friends, before he had even landed, having said nothing nor lamented, he kills
is fortunately preserved. Caesar, therefore, with all the civil wars now finished, was returning to Rome, his spirit swollen by his continuous deeds o
a consul decided to stir up a civil war in Italy. He was the brother of Marcus Antonius, who fought alongside Caesar against Brutus and Cassius. Not l
by Agrippina his wife and sister, for whom he both committed perjury and did other things, he was plotted against in his food and wickedly destroyed,
and having been brought up very badly, he thus fell from power, being 30 years old, and having reigned for 14 years less two months. And the city was
a plot. And when he asked, In what manner shall I die? Apollonius said, The way Odysseus is said to have. For they say that death came to him also
Therefore the trustworthiness of his judgment was confirmed more from what he knew he had done than from what others thought. For which reason, indeed
And he got rid of those who were slandered indiscriminately, especially his father's and his necessary friends, with Perennius contriving this. For ha
a sister of the king, having unbound her hair and thrown herself upon the ground, related all the things done by Cleander, and that they were being dr
who was left of the friends of Marcus to whom they arrive in the dead of night, both they themselves and a few of the conspirators. And standing at t
he called upon and deemed him worthy to become a helper with all speed to the Roman empire, as it was suffering insult and they proclaimed this man e
having settled matters and having killed all the friends of Albinus, he drove into Rome. 51. That Severus betrothed the daughter of Plautianus, who wa
he arrived at the city. And when the people received them carrying laurel, and the senate acclaimed them emperors, and having buried their father, the
And suspecting that everyone prophesied to him out of flattery, he sends a letter to a certain Maternianus, who had at that time been entrusted with a
having arrived at the wall of the camp, they were very easily received. And immediately the whole camp acclaimed the boy Antoninus, and having thrown
of his mother they handed over to be dragged and abused by those who wished which, having been dragged for a long time through the middle of the city
And when the army of Maximinus drew near, and shouting, the young men called upon their fellow soldiers to abandon a petty woman and a cowardly boy wh
of the senate, and he was the leader of the Mauretanian Nomads under the Romans, having also a not inconsiderable force of soldiers. Gordian relieved
army. For having set these on fire, they poured them down like rain, so that they were stripped of their weapons, being burned, and were destroyed, th
delaying, he organized his return to Rome. And he sent away the rest of the army to the provinces and to their own camps but he himself returned to R
Perinthus, as it was reported to him that civil dissensions had occurred in Rome, which Decius, of consular rank and prefect of the city, had caused,
having taken a harsh sharpness, they decided to act before they suffered, and they killed him in the middle of his journey from Byzantium to Heraclea,
put on the purple and seized Britain. And while he was doing this, and with affairs being in a state of commotion, Achilleus also was causing a revolu
he appointed. But having raised the army, he neither made his march towards Italy, nor was he clearly set on civil war, but hastened again against the
hanged himself. Then, therefore, the victorious emperors proceeded to Rome, with Theodosius's son Honorius accompanying them. Therefore, they were in
having taken Timasius, Gainas the Scythian, and Saul from the Alans as leaders of the armies, and at the same time having set Stilicho over the troops
sent Gainas, he immediately set out, in word against Tribigildus, but in deed wishing to become a tyrant. And he led with him not a few myriads of Got
of the enemies perished. But Gainas, having departed through Thrace and taken to flight, falls in with a Roman force and is killed along with the barb
he might get him out of the way. 125 Theodosius, therefore, having learned these things, writes to Valentinian to send Honoria out to Attila. And he,
who had served in the army and were attached to Valentinian, he came to terms, and after giving and receiving pledges, he accused the 127 emperor on a
having taken off his robe. There the followers of Majorinus did not desist from the siege, until, pressed by hunger, he left this life, eight months h
Misael and Cosmas, being chamberlains of the palace, because having neglected to guard the palace, while the emperor was living outside, they allowed
Illus and he himself marched out because Paul, the emperor's servant, was seized, holding a sword at the ready for a plot against Illus. But at that t
a military force having been sent against them, Marcian's party is turned and flees, with many from both sides having been killed. And some few of the
Illus, having brought Verina to Tarsus, prepared for her to use the imperial robe and, as she was the mistress of the empire, to proclaim Leontius emp
wishing to win him over, he sent his sister, who was living with the empress, to him while he was still at war, along with much wealth, giving him whi
passing through Odoacer's body at the loin, they say Theodoric said: Perhaps this wretch had not even a bone. And sending him out, he buried him in th
happening in Cotiaeum, the city of Phrygia, the emperor's army of *about two thousand also met them. They were led by two generals, John the Scythian
concerning the injustices of the general of the Thracians, and that the correct divine doctrine be ratified. On the next day, when those of the first
and when the people in Constantinople rose up in revolt during the spectacle of the horse races, the emperor cancelled the afternoon festival, and no
he writes to the general Comentiolus to betray the captivity, to secretly betray the people of Thrace to the barbarians. So the people knew the trick
Heraclius being at Abydos, he fled in the city. Heraclius therefore received at Abydos all the exiles whom Phocas had exiled. Therefore Heraclius came
to go against Aegisthus. And taking Orestes he comes *** *** persuaded their own mother, and she received Orestes. And when Clytemnestra was entreated
her, and it was not known where she was. He also had Chrysothemis and Laodice as daughters. And when she heard these things, she ordered him to be rel
sister Electra to Pylades, he held the land of the Mycenaeans until his death. 2. That Julius Caesar, having gone up from Antioch to Rome, was slain b
the Greeks having plotted against him through the giving of a drink, since it was the dogma of the Epicureans that the one after him would receive the
was killed by the multitude of the city. For his reinforcement with him, having been frightened by the immense multitude of the Roman citizens and hav
where the Byzantines shouted: A dead man has no friend, except Ostrys alone. And the same Leo made a persecution of the Arian Exakionites on account
numbers. And immediately going forth he became tyrant and took over all of Thrace, and he came against the emperor Zeno as far as Sycae opposite Const
and he was carried by his men into his house. But Zeno, upon hearing this, swore an oath, saying he was ignorant of the plot for the death of Illus a
of him were beheaded by an executioner, and their heads were brought to the emperor Zeno. And while the hippodrome was watching, they were brought in
of the people the king, but being angered he ordered a chariot to go against them, and a great disorder occurred. And the demes went up against the ex
of a diadem. And knowing this, the people entered the hippodrome, and through his address he managed the multitudes of the city, ordering them not to
having insulted and reviled the empress Theodora, and he exiled him to Cyzicus, who ought to have been cast into prison, and having been cast into the
on the same evening. And those who had devised the same plan of the plot were these: Ablabius the melistes near Miltiades, and Marcellus the silversmi
having attacked at the place called Pittakia, they seized him and brought him into the Great Church. And a great riot and disorder arose about this in
His nephew Caesar Augustus, son of Octavius, having subjected all of Egypt, also killed those who had murdered his great-uncle Julius. 7. That Gaius c
he sends letters to Gratian the emperor, ordering Theodosius to be sent to him. And Theodosius, having begun 180 the journey and having learned of Val
having captured one who had taken refuge in the church, he exiled him along with his wife and children to a fortress in Cappadocia, in which, having b
From this, Maurice, being hated, was reviled by all. But coming to repentance, he chose to receive his due here rather than there, and he sent to mona
and having gathered forces from Mauritania, he seized the city of Constantine, bringing with him also the icon of the Lord not made by human hands, as
with the senate, and indeed upon entering the city, he impaled these, and castrated his brothers. 187 41. That Justinian, having become emperor again,
a curopalates is suddenly proclaimed emperor in the hippodrome by the senate and the regiments, since Staurakios was already despaired of on account o
having learned this, he immediately withdrew from the city and set out against him with a very great force, and indeed, having besieged him for some s
he was to make the Medes and Persians revolt, while the other was to persuade the Babylonians to join in the undertaking and to win over the leader of
himself from living, the oldest after him succeeds to the leadership. 13. That the men on the island in the ocean make garments from certain reeds whi
Whatever Medea might command concerning the body of their father, and that the maidens were ready to do what was ordered, when night had come on, and
and there he continued to be honored by those who had been well-treated. 24. That Numitor, deprived of his kingdom by his own brother, who was called
Ptolemy, even before this, having held the Syrian kings in contempt, became a rebel, and because of their own distractions he ruled the country withou
claiming he was the son of Perseus, also declaring a fabricated birth and upbringing, and approaching Demetrius with a crowd to urge him to restore hi
to revolt, and having received Ptolemy into the city 204 they placed a diadem upon him and entrusted the kingdom to him. But he, not desiring the king
that Philometor had given him a child by Cleopatra to raise for the kingship, and having placed a diadem on him, and having many fugitives as allies,
His mind preoccupied and a multitude of the best men having been gathered, he withdrew into the stoa behind the temple, distressed and tormented. And
he used to act with a council and advisors, but holding hearings privately and, having shown himself the sole judge, he would make the decisions and
to send gifts, and for this reason it happened that the houses were open all night long they therefore agreed at this time to send into the houses of
the people as doing these things, from which the people will be small and worthy of nothing, and as having no care for the poor in a time of famine, n
PUBLIC SPEECHES] And when it was reported to the senate, they appointed a dictator. And he ordered the master of the horse * to come to him with the c
they were receiving But those who had shared in the conspiracy, being freed from fear, pretended to rejoice and praised the council for its decisions
now is and then was the way of life and for all the remaining time will be, being a fruitful plain and with many pastures and best for the health of t
they lead them to be transported to Rome and to be guarded in unknown prisons, separating one from another, until he himself should arrive. But as the
and 400 Sidicini, of all of whom Decius, a Campanian by birth, was the leader. This man, whenever he was entertained by the most distinguished of the
for that time he remained blind and having survived a few more days, he becomes subject to the Romans, having been arrested by his own men. For some,
to get all the prominent men out of his way. He also sent Scopas the Aetolian to Greece for recruitment, putting together a large amount of gold for a
misinterpreting and distorting some reports, while fabricating and elaborating others from the very 228 beginning. And he did these things, wishing to
the people as doing these things, from which the people will be small and worthy of nothing, and as having no care for the poor in a time of famine, neither all in common nor the powerful individually, although it was most of all necessary for them to suffer hardship with both their money and their bodies, as he himself did, and to bring in supplies for the city from every quarter. And he demanded that his own actions be examined against the actions of the other patricians, as differing greatly and entirely from one another. For they, spending nothing of their own for the common good and having moreover appropriated the public land, had been enjoying its fruits for a long time now, while he, holding none of the public property, was moreover expending his paternal substance to aid the poor, and, whenever he exhausted his resources, took loans from friends, receiving nothing in exchange for such great public-spiritedness except the goodwill of the citizens, than which he considered not even the wealth of men more valuable. And those who constantly gathered around him called him savior and father and founder of his country, and they declared that the consular power, if granted, would be a lesser favor than was proportionate to the greatness of his deeds, and they demanded that he be adorned with some other greater and more brilliant honor, which his descendants would also possess. And when, having made a third expedition to the coastal regions of Italy, he sailed into Ostia, which is the port of Rome, bringing many 214 grain-ships from both Cumae and the harbors around Misenum, and †relieved the city with provisions, so that it differed in no way from its ancient prosperity, all the people were ready, if they should have control of the vote at the elections, whether he sought the consulship or some other honor, with no one †permitting, nor law preventing, nor man opposing, to grant it. Seeing these things, the leaders of the aristocracy, neither deigning to permit them nor having the power to prevent them, were all in great despondency; and they were even more disturbed when, with both the tribunes and consuls forbidding him to convene assemblies and address the people, the people, having gathered together, drove them from the forum, and gave much license and strength to Mallius. The city being in such a state, the appointed prefect of the market, vexed at the insulting speeches with which Mallius continually abused him in the assemblies, and fearing the man more than all others, lest, if he got hold of some office, he should first move against the aristocracy, or else having incited the people against him should devise some plot against him through his faction, being indignant for both these reasons and eager to be rid of him as possessing a power greater than a private citizen, made a careful investigation of what was said and done by him. And since there were many whom the man used as collaborators in his secrets, and they were neither similar in nature nor of like mind, someone, as was likely, was about to be an unreliable friend to him, either through fear or for private gain; to whom Minucius, having given pledges that he would tell no one who he was, learned the whole design and preparation of Mallius. And when he had received indisputable proof and learned that the deed was at hand, he spoke to the consuls. But they, not thinking it right to make the investigation of so great an enterprise on their own authority alone, thought it necessary to bring the matter before the senate, and they immediately summoned the council as if deliberating about some foreign war. When the council was quickly filled, one of them came forward and said that a plot being contrived against the city had been revealed to them, one requiring very 215 great and swift precaution on account of the magnitude of the danger. He said that the informer of this was not some ordinary citizen, but one whom they themselves had appointed, on account of his virtue, to the greatest and most necessary public service, having tested both his loyalty and his public-spiritedness from the practices of his entire life. And when the senate was in suspense with expectation, he called Minucius. And he said: [SEEK IN THE ON
δῆμον ὡς ταῦτα πράττοντας, ἐξ ὧν ὀλίγος τε καὶ οὐδενὸς ἄξιος ὁ δῆμος ἔσται, καὶ οὐδὲ ἐπὶ σιτοδείᾳ φροντίδα τῶν ἀπόρων ἔχοντας
οὐδεμίαν οὔτε κοινῇ πάντας οὔτε ἰδίᾳ τοὺς δυνατού, παντὸς μάλιστα δέον αὐτοὺς χρήμασί τε καὶ σώμασιν, ὥσπερ αὐτὸς δή, κακοπαθεῖν
καὶ πάντοθεν ἐπεισάγειν τῇ πόλει τὰς ἀγοράς. ἠξίου τε πρὸς τὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἔργα πατρικίων τὰ ὑφ' ἑαυτοῦ πραττόμενα ἐξετάζειν,
ὡς πολὺ καὶ τὸ πᾶν ἀλλήλων διαφέροντα. ἐκείνους μὲν γὰρ οὐδὲν ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων εἰς τὸ κοινὸν ἀναλίσκοντας ἔτι καὶ τὴν δημοσίαν
γῆν σφετερισαμένους πολὺν ἤδη καρποῦσθαι χρόνον, ἑαυτὸν δὲ τῶν δημοσίων οὐδὲν ἔχοντα ἔτι καὶ τὴν πατρῴαν καταχορηγεῖν οὐσίαν
εἰς βοήθειαν τῶν ἀπόρων καί, ἐπειδὰν τὰ ὄντα καταναλώσῃ, δανείσματα ποιεῖσθαι παρὰ φίλων οὐθὲν ἀντικαταλλαττόμενον τῆς τοσαύτης
φιλοτιμίας ὅτι μὴ τὴν πολιτικὴν εὔνοιαν, ἧς οὐδὲ τὸν ἐξ ἀνθρώπων πλοῦτον ἡγεῖσθαι τιμιώτερον. οἱ δὲ περὶ αὐτὸν συνεστῶτες
ἀεὶ σωτῆρα καὶ πατέρα καὶ κτίστην ἀπεκάλουν τῆς πατρίδος, καὶ τὴν μὲν ὑπατικὴν ἐξουσίαν ἐλάττονα χάριν ἢ κατὰ τὸ μέγεθος τῶν
ἔργων αὐτοῦ γενήσεσθαι δοθεῖσαν ἀπέφαινον, ἄλλῃ δέ τινι μείζονι καὶ λαμπρᾷ τιμῇ κοσμεῖν ἠξίουν αὐτόν, ἣν καὶ γένος ἕξει τὸ
ἐξ ἐκείνου. ὡς δὲ καὶ τὴν τρίτην ἔξοδον ποιησάμενος ἐπὶ τὰ παραθαλάττια τῆς Ἰταλίας ἔκ τε Κύμης καὶ τῶν περὶ Μίσηνον λιμένων
σιτηγοὺς ὁλκάδας 214 ἄγων πολλὰς κατέπλευσεν εἰς Ὠστίαν, ὃ τῆς Ῥώμης ἐστὶν ἐπίνειον, καὶ †κατέπαυσε ταῖς τροφαῖς τὴν πόλιν,
ὡς μηδὲν ἔτι τῆς ἀρχαίας εὐετηρίας διαφέρειν, ἅπας ὁ δῆμος ἕτοιμος ἦν, εἰ γένοιτο τῆς ψήφου κύριος ἐπ' ἀρχαιρεσίαις, εἴτε
ὑπατείαν εἴτε ἄλλην τινὰ τιμὴν μετίοι, μηδενὸς † ἐπιτρέποντος μήτε νόμου κωλύοντος μήτ' ἀνδρὸς ἐναντιουμένου, χαρίζεσθαι.
ταῦτα ὁρῶντες οἱ προεστηκότες τῆς ἀριστοκρατίας καὶ οὔτε ἐπιτρέπειν ἀξιοῦντες οὔτε κωλύειν δύναμιν ἔχοντες ἐν πολλῇ πάντες
ἦσαν ἀθυμίᾳ· καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον διεταράχθησαν, ἐπειδή, κωλυόντων ἐκκλησίας συνάγειν αὐτὸν καὶ δημηγορεῖν τῶν τε δημάρχων καὶ ὑπάτων,
συστραφεὶς ὁ δῆμος ἐκείνους μὲν ἐξέβαλεν ἐκ τῆς ἀγορᾶς, τῷ δὲ Μαλλίῳ πολλὴν ἄδειαν καὶ ῥώμην παρέσχεν. ἐν τοιαύτῃ δὴ καταστάσει
τῆς πόλεως ὑπαρχούσης, ὁ τῆς ἀγορᾶς ἀποδειχθεὶς ἔπαρχος, ἀχθόμενος μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖς προπηλακισμοῖς τῶν λόγων, οἷς αὐτὸν ὑβρίζων
ὁ Μάλλιος ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις διετέλει, δεδοικὼς δὲ τὸν ἄνδρα μάλιστα τῶν ἄλλων, εἴ τινος ἐπιλάβοιτο ἀρχῆς, μὴ πρότερον τῆς
ἀριστοκρατίας αὑτὸν ποιήσηται, ἢ τὸν δῆμον ἐξερεθίσας πρὸς αὐτὸν ποιήσηται διὰ τὴν ἐκ τῆς ἑταιρείας ἐπιβουλήν τινα κατ' αὐτοῦ
μηχανησάμενος, ἀγανακτῶν τε δι' ἀμφότερα ταῦτα καὶ ἀπηλλάχθαι προθυμούμενος ἐκείνου μείζονα ἢ κατ' ἰδιώτην ἰσχὺν ἔχοντος,
ἐπιμελῆ ζήτησιν ἐποιεῖτο τῶν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ λεγομένων τε καὶ πραττομένων. πολλῶν δὲ ὄντων, οἷς ὁ ἀνὴρ συνεργοῖς ἐχρῆτο τῶν ἀπορρήτων,
καὶ οὔτε τὰς φύσεις ὁμοίων οὔτε τὰς γνώμας παραπλησίων, ἔμελλέ τις ὅπερ εἰκὸς οὐ βέβαιος αὐτῷ ἔσεσθαι φίλος, ἢ διὰ φόβον ἢ
διὰ κέρδος ἴδιον· ᾧ τὰ πιστὰ δοὺς ὁ Μινούκιος ὑπὲρ τοῦ μηδενὶ φράσειν ὅστις ἦν, ἅπασαν ἔγνω τήν τε διάνοιαν τοῦ Μαλλίου καὶ
τὴν παρασκευήν. ὡς δὲ καὶ τεκμήριον ἔλαβεν ἀναμφίλεκτον, καὶ τὴν πρᾶξιν ἐν χερσὶν οὖσαν ἔγνω, λέγει πρὸς τοὺς ὑπάτους. ἐκεῖνοι
δὲ οὐκ ἀξιοῦντες ἐφ' ἑαυτοῖς ποιῆσαι μόνοις ἐπιχειρήσεως τηλικαύτης ἐξέτασιν εἰς τὴν βουλὴν ᾤοντο δεῖν τὸ πρᾶγμα εἰσφέρειν,
καὶ συνεκάλουν τὸ συνέδριον εὐθὺς ὡς περὶ πολέμου δή τινος ὑπερορίου βουλευόμενοι. πληρωθέντος δὲ τοῦ συνεδρίου διὰ ταχέων,
παρελθὼν ἅτερος αὐτῶν ἔλεξεν, ὅτι πρᾶξις αὐτοῖς μεμήνυται συσκευαζομένη κατὰ τῆς πόλεως πολλῆς 215 πάνυ καὶ ταχείας φυλακῆς
δεομένη διὰ τὸ τοῦ κινδύνου μέγεθος. ταύτης δ' ἔφη μηνυτὴν οὐ τῶν ἐπιτυχόντων εἶναί τινα πολιτῶν, ἀλλ' ὃν αὐτοὶ δι' ἀρετὴν
ἐπὶ τῆς μεγίστης τε καὶ ἀναγκαιοτάτης τῷ κοινῷ χρείας ἔταξαν, δοκιμάσαντες αὐτοῦ τήν τε πίστιν καὶ τὴν πρὸς τὰ κοινὰ φιλοτιμίαν
ἐκ τῶν παρὰ πάντα τὸν βίον ἐπιτηδευομένων. μετεώρου δὲ τῆς βουλῆς ἐπὶ τῇ προσδοκίᾳ γενομένης, ἐκάλει τὸν Μινούκιον. κἀκεῖνος
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