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“9. τοῦτον ἐκεῖνον εἶναι. καὶ οὕτω καὶ ὁ Μαρκελλῖνος ἑάλω φαλακροῦ παρακύψεως, ἐξήχθη τε ἐκ [p. 256] τοῦ βουλευτηρίου ὀλοφυρόμενος. καὶ διὰ τῆς ἀγορᾶς διεξελθὼν οὐκέτ᾽ ἠθέλησε περαιτέρω προχωρῆσαι, ἀλλ᾽ αὐτοῦ ταύτῃ τὰ τέκνα τέσσαρα ὄντα ἀσπασάμενος λόγον εἶπε περιπαθέστατον: ἔφη γάρ: ‘ἕν με τοῦτο λυπεῖ, τέκνα, ὅτι ὑμᾶς [2] ζῶντας καταλείπω.’ καὶ ὁ μὲν οὕτω τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀπετμήθη, πρὶν τὸν Σεουῆρον μαθεῖν ὅτι καὶ κατεψηφίσθη: τῷ μέντοι τὴν αἰτίαν αὐτῷ τοῦ θανάτου παρασχόντι Πολληνίῳ Σεβεννῷ δίκη τιμωρὸς ἀπήντησεν. ἐκδοθεὶς γὰρ ὑπὸ Σαβίνου τοῖς Νωρικοῖς, ὧν ἄρξας οὐδὲν χρηστὸν ἐπεποιήκει, [3] αἴσχιστα πέπονθε: καὶ εἴδομεν αὐτὸν ἐπί τε τῆς γῆς κείμενον καὶ ἱκετεύοντα οἰκτρῶς, καὶ εἰ μὴ διὰ τὸν Ἄσπακα 1 τὸν θεῖον αὐτοῦ φειδοῦς ἔτυχε, κἂν ἀπωλώλει οἰκτρῶς. ὁ δὲ δὴ Ἄσπαξ οὗτος δεινότατος ἀνθρώπων ἐγένετο σκῶψαι, στωμύλασθαι, πάντων ἀνθρώπων καταφρονῆσαι, φίλοις χαρίσασθαι, ἐχθρὸν ἀμύνασθαι. [4] καὶ αὐτοῦ πολλὰ μὲν καὶ πρὸς ἄλλους πικρὰ καὶ ἀστεῖα ἀποφθέγματα φέρεται, πολλὰ δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὸν Σεουῆρον αὐτόν. ὧν ἓν καὶ τοῦτο: ἐς γὰρ τὸ γένος αὐτοῦ τὸ τοῦ Μάρκου ἐγγραφέντος ‘συγχαίρω σοι, Καῖσαρ,’ ἔφη, ‘ὅτι πατέρα εὗρες,’ ὡς καὶ ἀπάτορος αὐτοῦ τὸν ἔμπροσθεν χρόνον ὑπ᾽ ἀφανείας 2 ὄντος. ”

1 Probably a corruption on the part of the excerptor for *au)/spika (and similarly just belos'.

2 a)fanei/as Sylb., a)fanei/a *wC.

Dio's Roman History. Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Earnest Cary. Herbert Baldwin Foster. William Heinemann, Harvard University Press. London; New York. 1914-. Keyboarding.

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