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quid enim his, quae supra retuli, facto Mucii conuenientius? cum a Porsenna rege Etruscorum urbem nostram graui ac diutino bello urgueri aegre ferret, castra eius clam ferro cinctus intrauit immolantemque ante altaria conatus occidere est. ceterum inter molitionem pii pariter ac fortis propositi oppressus nec causam aduentus texit et tormenta quantopere contemneret mira patientia ostendit: perosus enim, credo, dexteram suam, quod eius ministerio in caede regis uti nequisset, iniectam foculo exuri passus est. nullum profecto di inmortales admotum aris cultum adtentioribus oculis uiderunt. ipsum quoque Porsennam oblitum periculi sui ultionem suam uertere in admirationem coegit: nam 'reuertere' inquit 'ad tuos, Muci, et eis refer te, cum uitam meam petieris, a me uita donatum'. cuius clementiam non adulatus Mucius tristior Porsennae salute quam sua laetior urbi se cum aeternae gloriae cognomine Scaeuolae reddidit.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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