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Trecenti Lacones contra Xersen missi, cum treceni
ex omni Graecia missi fugissent, deliberant an
et ipsi fugiant.
Deliberat Alexander Magnus an Babylona intret,
cum denuntiatum esset illi responso auguris
periculum.
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ARGENTARIVS
his duobus contentus fuit: aut non uenturum
Xerxen, aut non esse metuendum si uenerit. his solis
institit, et illud dixit quod exceptum est: ‘tollite,’
inquit, ‘tropaea.’ si uicisti, quid erubescis? si uictus
es, quid imperas? Locum mouit non inutiliter:
iudicare quidem se neque Xerxen neque iam
quemquam Persarum ausurum in Graeciam effundi; sed
eo magis tropaea ipsis tuenda, si quis umquam
illinc uenturus hostis esset, ut conspectu tropaeorum
animi militum accenderentur, hostium frangerentur.
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