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27. cum terra marique tantum belli circumstaret tyrannum, [2?] et prope nulla spes esset vere suas hostiumque aestimanti vires, non tamen omisit bellum, sed a Creta mille delectos iuventutis eorum excivit, cum mille iam haberet, et tria milia mercennariorum militum, decem milia popularium cum castellanis agrestibus in armis habuit et fossa valloque urbem communivit; [3] et ne quid intestini motus oreretur, metu et acerbitate poenarum tenebat animos quoniam ut salvum vellent tyrannum sperare non poterat. [4] cum suspectos quosdam civium haberet, eductis in campum omnibus copiis— [5?] dromon ipsi vocantpositis armis ad contionem vocari iubet Lacedaemonios atque eorum contioni satellites armatos circumdedit; [6] et pauca praefatus, cur sibi omnia timenti caventique ignoscendum in tali tempore foret, et ipsorum referre si quos suspectos status praesens rerum faceret, prohiberi potius ne quid moliri possint quam puniri molientes; [7] itaque quosdam se in custodia habiturum donec ea quae instet tempestas praetereat; hostibus repulsis, a quibus, si modo proditio intestina satis caveatur, minus periculi esse, extemplo eos emissurum; [8] sub [p. 486] haec citari nomina octoginta ferme principum1 iuventutis iussit atque eos, ut quisque ad nomen responderat, in custodiam tradidit; nocte insequenti omnes interfecti. [9] ilotarum deinde quidamhi sunt iam inde antiquitus castellani, agreste genustransfugere voluisse insimulati per omnes vicos sub verberibus acti necantur. hoc terrore obstipuerant multitudinis animi ab omni conatu novorum consiliorum. [10] intra munitiones copias continebat, nec parem se ratus, si dimicare acie vellet, et urbem relinquere tam suspensis et incertis omnium animis metuens.

1 A.U.C. 559

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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32, commentary, 32.39
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32, commentary, 32.40
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34, commentary, 33.1
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34, commentary, 33.12
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 35.23
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 35.25
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 35.29
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 35.35
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 35.36
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 35.47
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 36.17
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 37.58
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 38.30
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 38.34
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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Lacedaemonii
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Nabis
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Castellani
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Creta
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Dromos
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Ilotae
    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), HELO´TES
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SPARTA
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