Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historiae Romanae, book 79, chapter 19

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19. ὡς μέντοι τόν τε Αὐρηλιανὸν τεθνηκότα καὶ τὸν Διαδουμενιανὸν ¹ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ² Καίσαρα λόγῳ μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν στρατιωτῶν δι᾽ ὧν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀντιοχείας μεταπεμφθεὶς πρὸς αὐτὸν διῄει, ἔργῳ δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ Μακρίνου, ἀποδεδειγμένον καὶ προσέτι τὸ τοῦ Ἀντωνίνου ὄνομα προσειληφότα [2] ἔμαθον ῾ταῦτα γὰρ ἐπὶ τῇ τῶν στρατιωτῶν θεραπείᾳ, τὸ μὲν ἵνα μὴ δόξῃ τὴν τοῦ τεθνηκότος μνήμην παντάπασιν ἀτιμάζειν, καὶ μάλισθ᾽ ὅτι τῶν ἀνδριάντων τινὰς τῶν ἐν [p. 382] τῇ Ῥώμῃ ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ καὶ αὐτῷ ἐκείνῳ σταθέντων ³ λάθρᾳ καθῃρήκει, τὸ δὲ ἵνα ἄλλας ἑπτακοσίας καὶ πεντήκοντα αὐτοῖς δραχμὰς [3] προσυπόσχηται, ἐποίησεν᾽, οὐκέτι ὁμοίως φρονεῖν ἤρξαντο, ἀλλ᾽ ἐνθυμούμενοι ὅτι πρότερον ἐν οὐδενὶ λόγῳ ἐπεποίηντο, καὶ προσεκλογιζόμενοι πάνθ᾽ ὅ ...
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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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