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In the war betwixt the Athenians and Eumolpus,
provisions falling short, the commissary Pyrandrus, upon
a point of prudence and good husbandry, made some small
abatement in the soldiers' proportions. The citizens suspected treachery in the case, and stoned him to death.—
Callisthenes, Third Book of his History of Thrace.
The Romans being in war with the Gauls, and provisions for the belly being very scarce, Cinna contracted the
soldiers' allowance to a less proportion than they had formerly. The citizens interpreted this abatement to an ambitious design he had upon the government, and so stoned
him for it.—Aristides, Book Third of his Italian History.
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Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.
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