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Excellentissimos Spartanae uirtutis prouentus miserabilis lapsus sequitur. Epaminondas, maxima Thebarum felicitas idemque Lacedaemonis prima clades, cum uetustam eius urbis gloriam inuictamque ad id tempus publicam uirtutem apud Leuctram et Mantineam secundis proeliis contudisset, traiectus hasta, sanguine et spiritu deficiens recreare se cocantes primum an clypeus suus saluus esset, deinde an penitus fusi hostes forent interrogauit. quae postquam ex animi sententia conperit, 'non finis' inquit, 'conmilitones, uitae meae, sed melius et † athius initium aduenit: nunc enim uester Epaminondas nascitur, quia sic moritur. Thebas ductu et auspiciis meis caput Graeciae factas uideo, et fortis et animosa ciuitas Spartana iacet armis nostris abiecta: amara dominatione Graecia liberata est. orbus quoque, non tamen sine liberis morior, quoniam mirificas filias Leuctram et Mantineam relinquo'. e corpore deinde suo hastam educi iussit eoque uultu expirauit, quo, si eum di inmortales uictoriis suis perfrui passi essent, sospes patriae moenia intrasset.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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