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Aeque mitis animus Pyrri regis. audierat quodam in conuiuio Tarentinorum parum honoratum de se sermonem habitum: accersitos qui ei interfuerant percontabatur an ea, quae ad aures ipsius peruenerant, dixissent. tum ex his unus, 'nisi' inquit 'uinum nos defecisset, ista, quae tibi relata sunt, prae eis, quae de te locuturi eramus, lusus ac iocus fuissent'. tam urbana crapulae excusatio tamque simplex ueritatis confessio iram regis conuertit in risum. qua quidem clementia et moderatione adsecutus est ut et sobrii sibi Tarentini gratias agerent et ebrii bene precarentur. Ab eadem altitudine humanitatis legatis Romanorum ad redimendos captiuos castra sua petentibus, quo tutius uenirent, Lyconem Molosson obuiam misit, quo honoratius exciperentur, ipse cum ornatu regio salutatum extra portam occurrit, secundarum rerum prouentu non corruptus, ut officii respectum in iis deponeret, qui tum maxime armis cum eo dissidebant.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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