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Καμίλλου τὴν Φαλερίων πόλιν πολιορκοῦντος Φαλίσκων τις εἴτ᾽ ἀπεγνωκὼς τὴν πόλιν εἴτε κέρδη θηρώμενος ἴδια παῖδας ἐκ τῶν ἐπιφανεστάτων οἴκων παρακρουσάμενος — ἦν δὲ διδάσκαλος γραμμάτων — ἐξήγαγεν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως, ὡς περιπατήσοντάς τε πρὸ τοῦ τείχους καὶ τὸ Ῥωμαικὸν στρατόπεδον θεασομένους. [2] ὑπαγόμενος δὲ κατὰ μικρὸν αὐτοὺς προσωτέρω τῆς πόλεως ἐπὶ φυλακτήριον Ῥωμαικὸν ἄγει καὶ τοῖς ἐκδραμοῦσι παραδίδωσιν, ὑφ᾽ ὧν ἀχθεὶς ἐπὶ τὸν Κάμιλλον ἔφη: βεβουλεῦσθαι μὲν ἔτι πάλαι τὴν πόλιν ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων ποιῆσαι, οὐδενὸς δὲ κύριος ὢν οὔτε ἄκρας οὔτε πυλῶν οὔθ᾽ ὅπλων τοῦτον ἐξευρηκέναι τὸν τρόπον, ὑποχειρίους ποιῆσαι τοὺς υἱεῖς τῶν εὐγενεστάτων, ἄφυκτον ἀνάγκην ὑπολαβὼν τοὺς πατέρας αὐτῶν καταλήψεσθαι τῆς σωτηρίας τῶν τέκνων περιεχομένους τάχιον παραδοῦναι Ῥωμαίοις τὴν πόλιν. [3] ὁ μὲν δὴ [p. 237] ταῦτ᾽ ἔλεγε πολλὰς ἐλπίδας ἔχων θαυμαστούς τινας ἐξοίσεσθαι μισθοὺς τῆς προδοσίας. Ambr.
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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