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Ac ne Theramenis quidem Atheniensis in publica custodia mori coacti parua mentis constantia, in qua xxx tyrannorum iussu porrectam ueneni potionem non dubitanter hausit quodque ex ea superfuerat iocabundus inlisum humo clarum edere sonum coegit renidensque seruo publico, qui eam tradiderat, 'Critiae' inquit 'propino: uide igitur ut hoc poculum ad eum continuo perferas'. erat autem is ex xxx tyrannis crudelissimus. profecto supplicio est se liberare tam facile supplicium perpeti. itaque Theramenes perinde atque in domestico lectulo moriens uita excessit, inimicorum existimatione punitus, suo iudicio finitus.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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