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θανάτου τῇ τυραννίδι καὶ τοῖς συναγωνιζομένοις αὐτῇ διεχθρεύσειν. εἰ δὲ παραβαίη τὸν ὅρκον τοιαύτην αὑτῷ τελευτὴν ἠράσατο τοῦ βίου γενέσθαι καὶ τοῖς αὑτοῦ παισίν, οἵας ἔτυχεν ἡ γυνή.
ταῦτ᾽ εἰπὼν ἐκάλει καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἅπαντας ἐπὶ τὸν αὐτὸν ὅρκον: οἱ δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἔτι ἐνδοιάσαντες ἀνίσταντο καὶ τὸ ξίφος δεχόμενοι παρ᾽ ἀλλήλων ὤμνυον. γενομένων δὲ τῶν ὁρκωμοσιῶν μετὰ τοῦτ᾽ εὐθὺς ἐζήτουν, τίς ὁ τῆς ἐπιχειρήσεως ἔσται τρόπος. καὶ ὁ Βροῦτος αὐτοῖς ὑποτίθεται τοιάδε: πρῶτον μὲν διὰ φυλακῆς τὰς πύλας ἔχωμεν, ἵνα μηδὲν τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει λεγομένων τε καὶ πραττομένων κατὰ τῆς τυραννίδος αἴσθηται Ταρκύνιος, πρὶν ἢ τὰ παρ᾽ ἡμῶν εὐτρεπῆ [2] γενέσθαι. ἔπειτα κομίσαντες τὸ σῶμα τῆς γυναικὸς ὡς ἔστιν αἵματι πεφυρμένον εἰς τὴν ἀγορὰν καὶ προθέντες ἐν φανερῷ συγκαλῶμεν τὸν δῆμον εἰς ἐκκλησίαν. ὅταν δὲ συνέλθῃ καὶ πλήθουσαν ἴδωμεν τὴν
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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