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POTAMON cum suasoriam de
trecentis diceret tractabat quam turpiter fecissent
[p. 20]
Lacones hoc ipsum quod deliberassent de fuga et sic nouissime
clausit ... Insanierunt in hac suasoria multi
circa Othryaden: MVRREDIVS qui dixit:
fugerunt Athenienses; non enim Othryadis nostri litteras
didicerant. GARGONIVS dixit: Othryades qui periit ut
falleret, reuixit ut uinceret. LICINIVS NEPOS : cuius
exemplo uobis etiam mortuis uincendum fuit.
ANTONIVS ATTICVS inter has pueriles sententias
uidetur palmam meruisse; dixit enim: Othryades paene
a sepulcro uictor digitis uulnera conpressit, ut
tropaeo Laconem inscriberet. O dignum in Spartano
atramentum! o uirum cuius ne litterae quidem fuere
sine sanguine. CATIVS CRISPVS municipalis
κακοζήλως dixit post relatum exemplum Othryadis: aliud
ceteros, aliud Laconas decet: nos sine deliciis educamur,
sine muris uiuimus, sine uita uincimus.
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