Название: Dio's Rome, Volume 3
Автор: Cassius Dio Cocceianus
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: История
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Compare here (and particularly with, reference to the plural
Quod si se ipsos illi nostri liberatores e conspectu nostro abstulerunt, at exemplum facti reliquerunt: illi, quod nemo fecerat, fecerunt: Tarquinium Brutus bello est persecutus, qui tum rex fuit, cum esse Romae licebat; Sp. Cassius, Sp. Maelius, M. Manlius propter suspitionem regni appetendi sunt necati; hi primum cum gladiis non in regnum appetentem, sed in regnum impetum fecerunt.
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For the figure, compare Aristophanes, The Acharnians, vv. 380-381 (about Cleon):
[Greek: dieballe chai pseudae chateglottise mou chachychloborei chaplunen.]
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Dio has in this sentence imitated almost word for word the utterance of Demosthenes, inveighing against Aischines, in the speech on the crown (Demosthenes XVIII, 129).
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Compare Book Forty-five, chapter 30.
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There is a play on words here which can not be exactly rendered. The Greek verb [Greek:
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Various diminutive endings, expressing contempt.
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The MS. reading is not wholly satisfactory here. Bekker, by a slight change, would produce (after "Bambalio"): "nor by declaring war because of," etc.
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The Greek word is [Greek: obolos] a coin which in the fifth century B.C. would have amounted to considerably more than the Roman
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I. e., epilepsy.