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τῶν πολιτῶν ἐξήλασαν τῆς πατρίδος, τοῖς δ᾽ οὐθὲν τῶν γινομένων θεοῦ ἔργον, ἀλλὰ τυχηρὰ καὶ [3] ταῦτα καὶ τἆλλα πάντα ἀνθρώπεια εἶναι πάθη. ἔπειθ᾽ ἧκέ τις ἐπὶ τὸ συνέδριον τῆς βουλῆς ἄρρωστος ἐπὶ κλινιδίου κομιζόμενος, Τῖτος Λατίνιος ὄνομα, πρεσβύτερός τ᾽ ἀνὴρ καὶ οὐσίας ἱκανῆς κύριος, αὐτουργὸς δὲ καὶ τὸν πλείω χρόνον τοῦ βίου ζῶν ἐν ἀγρῷ. οὗτος εἰς τὴν βουλὴν ἐνεχθεὶς ἔφη δόξαι καθ᾽ ὕπνον ἐπιστάντα τὸν Καπιτώλιον Δία λέγειν αὐτῷ: ἴθι, Λατίνιε, καὶ λέγε τοῖς πολίταις, ὅτι μοι τῆς νεωστὶ πομπῆς τὸν ἡγούμενον ὀρχηστὴν οὐ καλὸν ἔδωκαν, ἵν᾽ ἀναθῶνται τὰς ἑορτὰς καὶ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἑτέρας ἐπιτελέσωσιν: οὐ γὰρ [p. 108] [4] δέδεγμαι ταύτας. αὐτὸς δ᾽ ἐκ τῶν ὕπνων ἔφησεν ἀνστὰς παρ᾽ οὐδὲν ἡγήσασθαι τὸ ὄναρ, ἀλλ᾽ ἕν τι τῶν πολλῶν καὶ ἀπατηλῶν ὑπολαβεῖν. ἔπειτ᾽ αὐτῷ πάλιν κατὰ τοὺς ὕπνους ἐπιφανὲν ταὐτὸ εἴδωλον τοῦ θεοῦ χαλεπαίνειν τε καὶ ἀγανακτεῖν, ὅτι οὐκ ἀπήγγειλε πρὸς

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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