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οἷς ἐστιν ἐλευθερίας τε καὶ δόξης ἀγαθῆς λόγος.
ὡς δὲ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἅπασι ταῦτ᾽ ἐδόκει, καὶ οὐθεὶς ἦν ὁ τἀναντία ἐρῶν, οἱ μὲν ὕπατοι τὸν δῆμον εἰς ἐκκλησίαν συνεκάλουν. συνελθόντος δ᾽ ὡς ἐπὶ καινοῖς ἀκούσμασι παντὸς τοῦ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ὄχλου παρελθὼν ἅτερος τῶν ὑπάτων Γάιος Ὁράτιος ἐπειρᾶτο πείθειν τοὺς δημοτικοὺς ἑκόντας ὑπομεῖναι καὶ ταύτην τὴν στρατείαν. ἀντιλεγόντων δὲ τῶν δημάρχων καὶ τοῦ δήμου προσέχοντος αὐτοῖς τὸν νοῦν παρελθὼν πάλιν ὁ ὕπατος εἶπε: [2] καλὸν γ᾽, ὦ Οὐεργίνιε, καὶ θαυμαστὸν ἔργον ἐξειργάσασθε διασπάσαντες ἀπὸ τῆς βουλῆς τὸν δῆμον: καὶ τὸ μὲν ἐφ᾽ ὑμῖν εἶναι μέρος πάντ᾽ ἀπολωλέκαμεν, ὅσα παρὰ τῶν προγόνων παραλαβόντες ἢ τοῖς ἑαυτῶν πόνοις κτησάμενοι κατέσχομεν ἀγαθά. [3] οὐ μὴν ἡμεῖς γ᾽ ἀκονιτὶ μεθησόμεθα αὐτῶν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀναλαβόντες τὰ ὅπλα μετὰ τῶν βουλομένων σώζεσθαι τὴν πατρίδα χωρήσομεν
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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