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28. προσεδόκων. ἐλυποῦντό τε οὖν, καὶ [p. 158] πολλὰ πρὸς ἀλλήλους, οἷς γε καὶ ἀσφάλειά τις ἦν, διελάλουν. οὐ γάρ που καὶ πᾶσιν ἀδεῶς συγγίγνεσθαι ἐδύναντο: καὶ γὰρ οἱ πάνυ φίλοι δοκοῦντές 1 τινων εἶναι, συγγενεῖς τε ἕτεροι, διέβαλλόν 2 σφας, τὰ μὲν παρατρέποντες τὰ δὲ καὶ [2] παντάπασι καταψευδόμενοι. ὅθεν οἱ λοιποὶ καὶ κατὰ τοῦτο οὐχ ἥκιστα ἐκακοπάθουν, ὅτι μήτε προσολοφύρασθαι μήτ᾽ ἐπικοινῶσαι ἔχοντες οὐδ᾽ 3 ἀπαλλαγῆναί ποτε αὐτοῦ ἐδύναντο. ἡ μὲν γὰρ πρὸς τοὺς ὁμοπαθεῖς συνουσία ἔφερέ τινα αὐτοῖς [3] κούφισιν, καί τις ἀσφαλῶς ἐκλαλήσας τέ τι καὶ ἀντακούσας οἷα ἔπασχον ῥᾴων ἐγίγνετο: ἡ δὲ δὴ πρὸς τοὺς οὐχ ὁμοήθεις ἀπιστία καθείργνυ τε ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς αὐτῶν τὴν ἀνίαν καὶ ἐπὶ πλεῖον αὐτὰς ἐξέκαε, μήτ᾽ ἀποφυγὴν 4 μήτ᾽ ἀνάπαυσίν τινα [4] λαμβανούσας. πρὸς γὰρ τῷ κατεχόμενα ἔνδον τὰ παθήματά σφας τηρεῖν, καὶ εὐλογεῖν αὐτὰ καὶ θαυμάζειν, ἑορτάζειν τε καὶ βουθυτεῖν εὐθυμεῖσθαί τε ἐπ᾽ αὐτοῖς ἠναγκάζοντο.

1 kai\ ga\r oi( pa/nu fi/loi dokou=ntes Bs., ka)\n ga\r pa/nu fi/loi e)do/koun L.

2 die/ballo/n R. Steph., die/balo/n L.

3 ou)d' Pflugk, ou)/t' L.

4 mh/t' a)pofugh\n Cary, mhtaporahn L.

Dio's Roman History. Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Earnest Cary. Herbert Baldwin Foster. William Heinemann, Harvard University Press. London; New York. 1914-. Keyboarding.

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