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“16. ἐγένετο δ᾽ ἐν ταύταις ταῖς ἡμέραις καὶ ἀγὼν
γυμνικός, 1 ἐν ᾧ τοσοῦτον πλῆθος ἀθλητῶν ἀναγκασθὲν
συνῆλθεν ὥσθ᾽ ἡμᾶς θαυμάσαι πῶς αὐτοὺς
τὸ στάδιον ἐχώρησε. καὶ γυναῖκες δὲ ἐν τῷ
ἀγῶνι τούτῳ ἀγριώτατα ἁμιλλώμεναι 2 ἐμαχέσαντο,
ὥστε καὶ ἐς τὰς ἄλλας πάνυ ἐπιφανεῖς
ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν ἀποσκώπτεσθαι: καὶ διὰ τοῦτ᾽ ἐκωλύθη
μηκέτι μηδεμίαν γυναῖκα μηδαμόθεν μονομαχεῖν.
[2]
εἰκόνων δέ ποτε πολλῶν τῷ Πλαυτιανῷ γενομένων
῾ἄξιον γὰρ ἀφηγήσασθαι τὸ πραχθέν᾽
δυσχεράνας πρὸς τὸ πλῆθος ὁ Σεουῆρός τινας
αὐτῶν συνεχώνευσε, καὶ ἐς τὰς πόλεις ἐκ τούτου
θροῦς διῆλθεν ὡς καὶ καθῄρηται καὶ διέφθαρται,
καί τινες 3 συνέτριψαν εἰκόνας αὐτοῦ, ἐφ᾽ ᾧ
ὕστερον ἐκολάσθησαν: ἐν οἷς ἦν καὶ ὁ τῆς
Σαρδοῦς ἄρχων Ῥάκιος Κώνστας, ἀνὴρ ἐλλογιμώτατος.
[3]
ἀλλ᾽ οὗ χάριν τούτων ἐμνήσθην, ὅτι
τοῦ ῥήτορος, ὃς τοῦ Κώνσταντος κατηγόρησε,
καὶ τοῦτο πρὸς τοῖς ἄλλοις εἰπόντος, θᾶσσον
ἂν τὸν οὐρανὸν συμπεσεῖν ἢ Πλαυτιανόν τι ὑπὸ
Σεουήρου παθεῖν, καὶ μᾶλλον ἂν εἰκότως ἐκείνῳ
τῷ λόγῳ, εἴπερ τι τοιοῦτον ἐλέχθη, πιστεῦσαί
[4]
τινα, — ταῦτα τοῦ ῥήτορος εἰπόντος, καὶ προσέτι
[p. 236]
καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Σεουήρου νεανιευσαμένου πρὸς
ἡμᾶς τοὺς συνδικάζοντας αὐτῷ καὶ φήσαντος ὅτι
‘ἀδύνατόν ἐστι κακόν τι ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ Πλαυτιανῷ
γενέσθαι,’ οὐδ᾽ ἀπηνιαύτισεν 4 αὐτὸς οὗτος ὁ
Πλαυτιανός, ἀλλ᾽ ἐσφάγη καὶ αἱ εἰκόνες αὐτοῦ
[5]
σύμπασαι διεφθάρησαν. πρὸ δὲ τούτου κῆτος
ὑπερμέγεθες ἐς τὸν τοῦ Αὐγούστου ἐπίκλην λιμένα
ἐξώκειλε καὶ ἑάλω, καὶ τὸ μίμημα αὐτοῦ ἐς τὸ
κυνηγέσιον ἐσαχθὲν πεντήκοντα ἄρκτους εἴσω
ἐδέξατο. ὤφθη δὲ ἐπὶ πολλὰς ἡμέρας καὶ κομήτης
ἀστὴρ ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ, καὶ οὐκ αἴσιόν τι σημαίνειν
ἐλέγετο.” Xiph. 313, 21-314, 13 R. St.
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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