Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historiae Romanae, book 44, chapter 40

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ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐς τούτους τοὺς λόγους ἀφικόμην, ¹ ἄρξομαι περὶ τῶν κοινῶν αὐτοῦ πολιτευμάτων λέγειν. καὶ γὰρ εἰ μὲν ἐν ἡσυχίᾳ ἐβεβιώκει, τάχ᾽ ἂν ἀνέλεγκτον ² τὴν ἀρετὴν ἔσχεν: νῦν δὲ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον αὐξηθείς, καὶ μέγιστος οὐχ ὅτι τῶν καθ᾽ ἑαυτὸν ἀνθρώπων ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων τῶν τι δυνηθέντων γενόμενος, ἐκπρεπέστερον [2] αὐτὴν ἐπεδείξατο. ³ ἐκείνους μὲν γὰρ σχεδόν τι πάντας αὕτη ἡ ἐξουσία διήλεγξε, τοῦτον δὲ ἐπὶ μᾶλλον ἐξέφηνε. τῷ γὰρ μεγέθει τῆς ἀρετῆς ἀντιπάλους πράξεις λαβὼν ἰσοστάσιος αὐταῖς ηὑρέθη, καὶ μόνος ἀνθρώπων τηλικαύτην αὑτῷ τύχην ἐξ ἀνδραγαθίας κτησάμενος οὔτε διέβαλεν [3] αὐτὴν οὔθ᾽ ὕβρισεν. ὅσα μὲν οὖν ἄλλως στρατευόμενος ἐλαμπρύνετο, ἢ ὅσα ἐν ταῖς ἐγκυκλίοις λειτουργίαις ἐμεγαλοφρονήσατο, παραλείψω, καίπερ τοσαῦτα ὄντα ὥστ᾽ ἄλλῳ τινὶ καὶ πάνυ ἂν ἐς ἔπαινον ἐξαρκέσαι: πρὸς γάρ τοι τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν τῶν μετὰ ταῦτα αὐτοῦ ἔργων σμικρολογεῖσθαι δόξω, ἂν καὶ ἐκεῖνα ἀκριβῶς ἐπεξίω: ὅσα δὲ δὴ ἄρχων ⁴ ὑμῶν ἔπραξε, ταῦτ᾽ [p. 380] [4] ἐρῶ μόνα. καὶ οὐδὲ ταῦτα μέντοι πάντα καθ᾽ ἕκαστον ἀκριβῶς διηγήσομαι: οὔτε γὰρ ἐξικέσθαι ποτ᾽ ἂν αὐτῶν δυνηθείην, καὶ πάμπολυν ἂν ὑμῖν ὄχλον ἄλλως τε καὶ εἰδόσι ταῦτα παράσχοιμι.

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1 a)fiko/mhn R. Steph., a)fi/komai LM cod. Peir.

2 ta/x' a)\n a)ne/legkton L, ta/x' a)\n a)nane/legkton M, ta/xa a)ne/legkton cod. Peir.

3 e)pedei/cato Bk., a)pedei/cato LM cod. Peir.

4 a)/rxwn R. Steph., o( a)/rxwn LM cod. Peir.

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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