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τούτου δὲ δόξαντος ὑπερηφάνους ἀποκρίσεις καί τετυφωμένας ποιεῖσθαι μετριώτερον ὁ Κράσσος εἶπεν, εἰ τῇ πόλει συμφέρει, μετιέναι τὴν ἀρχήν, εἰ δὲ μή, ποιεῖσθαι. διὸ καί τινες ἐθάρρησαν ὑπατείαν μετελθεῖν, ὧν ἦν καί Δομίτιος. γενομένων δὲ φανερῶν ἐκείνων ἐν ταῖς παραγγελίαις οἱ μὲν ἄλλοι δείσαντες ἀπέστησαν, Δομίτιον δὲ Κάτων οἰκεῖον ὄντα καί φίλον ἐθάρρυνεν ἐγκελευόμενος καί παρορμῶν ἔχεσθαι τῆς ἐλπίδος ὡς ὑπερμαχοῦντα τῆς κοινῆς ἐλευθερίας: οὐ γὰρ ὑπατείας Πομπήιον δεῖσθαι καί Κράσσον, ἀλλὰ τυραννίδος, οὐδ᾽ ἀρχῆς αἴτησιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἁρπαγὴν ἐπαρχιῶν καί στρατοπέδων εἶναι τὰ πραττόμενα.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
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