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7. ἔτη 1 ἓξ καὶ μῆνας δύο καὶ ἡμέρας δύο. καί μοι καὶ ἐνταῦθα τοῦ λόγου θαυμάσαι πάμπολλα ἐπέρχεται. ὅ τε γὰρ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ μέλλοντί οἱ ἐκ τῆς Ἀντιοχείας τὴν τελευταίαν ἔξοδον ποιήσασθαι ξιφήρης ὄναρ ἐπέστη, λέγων ὅτι ‘ὡς σὺ τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἀπέκτεινας, καὶ ἐγὼ σὲ ἀποσφάξω:’ [2] καὶ οἱ μάντεις εἶπον αὐτῷ τὴν ἡμέραν ἐκείνην φυλάσσεσθαι, τούτῳ τῷ ῥήματι ἄντικρυς χρησάμενοι, ὅτι ‘αἱ τοῦ ἥπατος τοῦ ἱερείου πύλαι κέκλεινται.’ ἀφ᾽ οὗ δὴ καὶ διὰ θύρας τινὸς ἐξῆλθε, μηδὲν μηδὲ τοῦ λέοντος, ὃν καὶ Ἀκινάκην ὠνόμαζε καὶ ὁμοτράπεζον ὁμόκλινόν τε ἐποιεῖτο, φροντίσας, ὅτι καὶ ἐκράτησεν αὐτὸν ἐξιόντα καὶ [3] τὴν ἐσθῆτα αὐτοῦ προσκατέρρηξεν: ἔτρεφε μὲν γὰρ καὶ ἄλλους λέοντας πολλούς, καὶ ἀεί τινας περὶ αὑτὸν εἶχεν, ἐκεῖνον δὲ καὶ δημοσίᾳ πολλάκις κατεφίλει. ταῦτά τε οὖν οὕτως ἔσχε, καὶ ὀλίγον πρὸ 2 τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ ἔν τε τῇ Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ πῦρ ἐξαίφνης πολύ, ὥς γε καὶ ἤκουσα, πάντα τὸν τοῦ Σαράπιδος ναὸν ἔνδοθεν κατασχὸν [4] ἄλλο μὲν οὐδὲν τὸ παράπαν 3 ἐλυμήνατο, τὸ δὲ δὴ ξίφος ἐκεῖνο ᾧ τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἀπεσφάκει μόνον ἔφθειρεν, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο παυσαμένου αὐτοῦ ἀστέρες πολλοὶ ἐφάνησαν: καὶ ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ δαίμων τις ἀνθρώπου σχῆμα ἔχων ὄνον ἔς τε τὸ [p. 354] Καπιτώλιον καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἐς 4 τὸ παλάτιον ἀνήγαγεν, ζητῶν τὸν δεσπότην αὐτοῦ, ὥς γε καὶ ἔφασκεν, καὶ λέγων ἐκεῖνον μὲν ἀπολωλέναι τὸν [5] δὲ Δία ἄρχειν. συλληφθείς τε ἐπὶ τούτῳ καὶ πρὸς τὸν Ἀντωνῖνον ὑπὸ τοῦ Ματερνιανοῦ πεμφθείς ‘ἀπέρχομαι μέν’ ἔφη ‘ὡς κελεύεις, 5 ἀφίξομαι δὲ οὐ πρὸς τοῦτον τὸν αὐτοκράτορα ἀλλὰ πρὸς ἕτερον,’ καὶ μετὰ τοῦτ᾽ ἐς τὴν Καπύην

1 e)/th Xiph., *e*t*h*t*e V.

2 pro\ Xiph., *p*r*o*s V.

3 to\ para/pan Urs., *t*o*p*a*r*a *w, om Xiph.

4 e)s Rk., *e*s*t*e V.

5 keleu/eis Urs., *k*e*l*e*u*s*q*e*i*s V.

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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