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18. καὶ ἐφοβοῦντο διὰ βραχυτάτου. ἀγγελθείσης δὲ τῆς Φαρσαλικῆς μάχης ἐπὶ πολὺ μὲν ἠπίστουν: οὔτε γὰρ ὁ Καῖσαρ τῷ κοινῷ τι ἐπέστειλεν, ὀκνήσας δημοσίᾳ χαίρων ἐπὶ τοιαύτῃ νίκῃ φανῆναι ῾διόπερ οὐδὲ ἐπινίκια αὐτῆς ἔπεμψἐ, καὶ ὁ παράλογος πρός τε τὴν παρασκευὴν αὐτῶν [2] καὶ πρὸς τὰ ἐλπιζόμενα πολὺς ἐφαίνετο. ὡς δ᾽ οὖν ἐπίστευσάν ποτε, τὰς μὲν εἰκόνας τοῦ τε Πομπηίου καὶ τοῦ Σύλλου τὰς ἐπὶ τῷ βήματι ἑστώσας ἀνεῖλον, ἄλλο δὲ οὐδὲν τότε ἔπραξαν: συχνοὶ μὲν γὰρ οὐδὲ τοῦτο βουλόμενοι ποιῆσαι, συχνοὶ δὲ καὶ τὸν Πομπήιον, μή πως ἀναμαχέσηται, φοβούμενοι, τῷ τε Καίσαρι καὶ ἐκεῖνο 1 [3] ἱκανῶς ἔχειν ἐνόμιζον, καὶ τὸν Πομπήιον εὐπαραίτητον 2 ἐπ᾽ αὐτῷ γενήσεσθαί σφισι προσεδόκων. ἐπεὶ μέντοι καὶ ἀπέθανεν, ὀψὲ μὲν καὶ τοῦτο, καὶ οὐ πρότερον πρὶν τὸν δακτύλιον αὐτοῦ πεμφθέντα ἰδεῖν, ἐπίστευσαν ῾ἐνεγέγλυπτο δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ τρόπαια

1 e)kei=no Xyl., e)kei/nwi L.

2 eu)parai/thton Bs., a)parai/thton L.

Dio's Roman History. Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Earnest Cary. Herbert Baldwin Foster. William Heinemann, Harvard University Press. London; New York. 1914-. Keyboarding.

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