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Hoc loci Leonidas nobilis Spartanus occurrit, cuius proposito, opere, exitu nihil fortius: nam cum ccc ciuibus apud Thermopylas toti Asiae obiectus grauem illum et mari et terrae Xerxen, nec hominibus tantum terribilem, sed Neptuno quoque conpedes et caelo tenebras minitantem, pertinacia uirtutis ad ultimam desperationem redegit. ceterum perfidia et scelere incolarum eius regionis et loci opportunitate, qua plurimum adiuuabatur, spoliatus occidere dimicans quam adsignatam sibi a patria stationem deserere maluit adeoque alacri animo suos ad id proelium, quo perituri erant, cohortatus est, ut diceret 'sic prandete, conmilitones, tamquam apud inferos cenaturi'. mors erat denuntiata: Lacedaemonii, perinde ac uictoria esset promissa, dicto intrepidi paruerunt.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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