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παυσαμένου δ᾽ αὐτοῦ παραλαβὼν τὸν λόγον ὁ Τύλλιος ἔλεξεν ὧδε: ἅπαντα μέν, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἄνθρωπον ὄντα δεῖ προσδοκᾶν, ὦ βουλή, τὰ παράδοξα καὶ μηδὲν ἡγεῖσθαι ἄπιστον, ὅπου γε κἀμὲ Ταρκύνιος οὑτοσὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς παῦσαι πρόθυμός ἐστιν: ὃν ἐγὼ νήπιον παραλαβὼν καὶ ἐπιβουλευόμενον ὑπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἔσωσα καὶ ἐξέθρεψα καὶ εἰς ἄνδρας ἐλθόντα κηδεστὴν ἠξίωσα λαβεῖν, καὶ εἴ τι πάθοιμι διάδοχον ἔμελλον καταλείψειν ἁπάντων τῶν ἐμῶν. ἐπειδὴ δὲ παρὰ γνώμην ἅπαντ᾽ ἀπήντηκέ μοι καὶ ὥσπερ ἀδικῶν αὐτὸς ἐγκαλοῦμαι, τὴν μὲν τύχην ὕστερον ἀνακλαύσομαι, [2] 1 τὰ δὲ δίκαια νῦν πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐρῶ. ἐγὼ τὴν μὲν ἐπιτροπείαν ὑμῶν ἔλαβον, ὦ Ταρκύνιε, νηπίων καταλειφθέντων οὐχ ἑκών, ἀλλ᾽ ὑπὸ τῶν πραγμάτων ἀναγκασθείς: ἐπειδὴ τὸν μὲν πάππον ὑμῶν οἱ τῆς βασιλείας ἀντιποιούμενοι φανερῶς ἀπέκτειναν, ὑμῖν δὲ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις αὐτοῦ συγγενέσιν ἐπιβουλεύειν ἐλέγοντο [p. 61] ἀφανῶς: καὶ πάντες τοῦθ᾽ οἱ προσήκοντες ὑμῖν ὡμολόγουν, ὅτι κρατήσαντες ἐκεῖνοι τῆς ἀρχῆς οὐδὲ σπέρμα τοῦ Ταρκυνιείου καταλείψουσι γένους. κηδεμὼν δὲ καὶ φύλαξ οὐδεὶς ὑμῶν ἕτερος ἦν, ὅτι μὴ γυνή, πατρὸς μήτηρ, καὶ αὐτὴ διὰ γῆρας ἑτέρων δεομένη κηδεμόνων: ἀλλ᾽ ἐν ἐμοὶ κατελείπεσθε μόνῳ φύλακι τῆς ἐρημίας, ὃν νῦν ἀλλότριον καὶ οὐδὲν προσήκοντα ἀποκαλεῖς. [3] τοιούτοις μέντοι πράγμασιν ἐπιστὰς ἐγὼ τούς τ᾽ ἀποκτείναντας τὸν πάππον ὑμῶν ἐτιμωρησάμην καὶ ὑμᾶς εἰς ἄνδρας ἤγαγον καὶ γενεᾶς ἄρρενος οὐχ ὑπαρχούσης τῶν ἐμαυτοῦ κυρίους προειλόμην ποιῆσαι. ἔχεις τὸν τῆς ἐπιτροπῆς λόγον, ὦ Ταρκύνιε, καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἐπιχειρήσειας εἰπεῖν, ὡς ψεύδομαί τι τούτων.
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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