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ἐπιστὰς δὲ τῇ κλίνῃ διεγερθείσης ἅμα τῷ συνεῖναι τὸν ψόφον τῆς γυναικὸς καὶ πυνθανομένης, ὅστις εἴη, φράσας τοὔνομα σιωπᾶν ἐκέλευε καὶ μένειν ἐν τῷ δωματίῳ σφάξειν αὐτὴν ἀπειλήσας, ἐὰν ἐπιχειρήσῃ φεύγειν ἢ βοᾶν. τούτῳ καταπληξάμενος τῷ τρόπῳ τὴν ἄνθρωπον αἱρέσεις αὐτῇ δύο προὔτεινεν, ὧν ποτέραν αὐτὴ προῃρεῖτο λαβεῖν ἠξίου, θάνατον μετ᾽ [p. 109] [2] αἰσχύνης ἢ βίον μετ᾽ εὐδαιμονίας. εἰ μὲν γὰρ ὑπομενεῖς, ἔφη, χαρίσασθαί μοι, γυναῖκά σε ποιήσομαι καὶ βασιλεύσεις σὺν ἐμοὶ νῦν μὲν ἧς ὁ πατήρ μοι ἔδωκε πόλεως, μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἐκείνου τελευτὴν Ῥωμαίων τε καὶ Λατίνων καὶ Τυρρηνῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὅσων ἐκεῖνος ἄρχει. ἐγὼ γὰρ οἶδ᾽, ὅτι παραλήψομαι τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς βασιλείαν, ὥσπερ ἐστὶ δίκαιον, τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ πρεσβύτατος ὤν. ὅσα δ᾽ ὑπάρχει τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν ἀγαθά, ὧν ἁπάντων ἔσῃ σὺν ἐμοὶ κυρία, τί δεῖ σε καλῶς ἐπισταμένην διδάσκειν; [3] εἰ δ᾽ ἀντιπράττειν ἐπιχειρήσεις σώζειν βουλομένη τὸ σῶφρον, ἀποκτενῶ σε καὶ τῶν θεραπόντων ἐπικατασφάξας ἕνα θήσω τὰ σώματα ὑμῶν ἅμα καὶ φήσω κατειληφὼς ἀσχημονοῦσάν σε μετὰ τοῦ δούλου τετιμωρῆσθαι τὴν τοῦ συγγενοῦς ὕβριν μετερχόμενος, ὥστ᾽ αἰσχρὰν καὶ ἐπονείδιστόν σου γενέσθαι τὴν τελευτὴν καὶ μηδὲ ταφῆς τὸ σῶμά σου τυχεῖν μηδ᾽ ἄλλου τῶν νομίμων μηδενός. [4] ὡς δὲ πολὺς ἦν ἀπειλῶν θ᾽ ἅμα καὶ ἀντιβολῶν καὶ διομνύμενος ἀληθεύειν τῶν λεγομένων ἑκάτερον, εἰς ἀνάγκην ἦλθεν ἡ Λουκρητία φοβηθεῖσα τὴν περὶ τὸν θάνατον ἀσχημοσύνην εἶξαί τε καὶ περιιδεῖν αὐτὸν ἃ προῃρεῖτο διαπραξάμενον.
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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