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14. tertio inde die ad Casum amnem perventum; inde profecti Erizam urbem primo impetu ceperunt. [2] ad Thabusion castellum imminens flumini Indo ventum est, cui fecerat nomen Indus ab elephanto deiectus. [3] [p. 289] haud procul a Cibyra aberant, nec legatio 1ulla a Moagete, tyranno civitatis eius, homine ad omnia infido atque importuno, veniebat. [4] ad temptandum eius animum C. Helvium cum quattuor milibus peditum et quingentis equitibus consul praemittit. huic agmini iam finis ingredienti legati occurrerunt nuntiantes paratum esse tyrannum imperata facere; [5] orabant, ut pacatus finis iniret cohiberetque a populatione agri militem, et in corona aurea quindecim talenta adferebant. [6] Helvius integros a populatione agros servaturum pollicitus ire ad consulem legatos iussit. [7] quibus eadem referentibus consulneque Romaniinquitbonae voluntatis ullum signum erga nos tyranni habemus, et ipsum talem esse inter omnes constat, ut de poena eius magis quam de amicitia nobis cogitandum sit. [8] ” perturbati hac voce legati nihil aliud petere, quam ut coronam acciperet veniendique ad eum tyranno potestatem et copiam loquendi ac purgandi se faceret. [9] permissu consulis postero die in castra tyrannus venit, vestitus comitatusque vix ad privati modice locupletis habitum, et oratio fuit summissa et infracta, extenuantis opes suas urbiumque suae dicionis egestatem querentis. [10] [p. 290] erant autem 2sub eo praeter Cibyram Sylleum et ad Limnen quae appellatur. ex his, ut se suosque spoliaret, quinque et viginti talenta se conlecturum, prope ut diffidens, pollicebatur. [11] “enimveroinquit consulferri iam ludificatio ista non potest. parum est non erubuisse absentem, cum per legatos frustrareris nos; praesens quoque in eadem perstas impudentia. [12] quinque et viginti talenta tyrannidem tuam exhaurient? quingenta ergo talenta nisi triduo numeras, populationem in agris, obsidionem in urbe expecta. [13] “ hac denuntiatione conterritus perstare tamen in pertinaci simulatione inopiae. [14] et paulatim illiberali adiectione nunc per cavillationem, nunc precibus et simulatis lacrimis ad centum talenta est perductus. adiecta decem milia medimnum frumenti. haec omnia intra sex dies exacta.

1 a. Ch. 189.

2 a. u. 565.

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