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When the Persians were plundering Greece,
Pausanias, the Spartan general, accepted five hundred
talents of gold from Xerxes and intended to betray
Sparta. But when he was detected, Agesilaüs,1 his
father, helped to pursue him to the temple of Athena
of the Brazen House ; the father walled up the doors
of the shrine with bricks and killed his son by
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starvation.2 His mother also cast his body forth unburied.3
So Chrysermus in the second book of his Histories.
The Romans in their war with the inhabitants of
Latium elected Publius Decius general. A certain
poor, but noble, youth named Cassius Brutus wished
to open the gates at night for a stated sum of money.
He was detected and fled to the temple of Minerva
Auxiliaria. Cassius Signifer, his father, shut him in,
killed him by starvation, and cast him forth unburied.
So Cleitonymus in his Italian History.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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