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Vniuersa ciuitas Atheniensium iniquissimo ac truculentissimo furore instincta de capite decem praetorum, qui apud Arginussas Lacedaemoniam classem deleuerant, tristem sententiam tulerat. forte tunc eius potestatis Socrates, cuius arbitrio plebei scita ordinarentur, indignum iudicans tot et tam bene meritos et indigna causa impetu inuidiae abripi, temeritati multitudinis constantiam suam obiecit maximoque contionis fragore et incitatissimis minis conpulsus non est ut se publicae dementiae auctorem ascriberet. quae oppositu eius legitima grassari uia prohibita iniusto praetorum cruore manus suas contaminare perseuerauit. nec timuit Socrates ne consternatae patriae undecimus furor mors ipsius existeret.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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