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ἐπειλημμένον ἐκ τῆς Τυλλίου πολιτείας, καὶ τὴν ἰδίαν ἀξίωσιν, ἣν πρότερον εἶχον, ἀναλαβεῖν. [5] θορύβου δὲ γενομένου πολλοῦ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ὅλην καὶ οἰμωγῆς ἐπὶ τῷ Τυλλίου θανάτῳ δείσας ὁ Ταρκύνιος, εἰ διὰ τῆς ἀγορᾶς ὁ νεκρὸς φέροιτο, ὡς ἔστι Ῥωμαίοις ἔθος, τόν τε βασίλειον κόσμον ἔχων καὶ τἆλλ᾽, ὅσα νόμος ἐπὶ ταφαῖς βασιλικαῖς μή τις εἰς ἑαυτὸν ὁρμὴ γένηται τοῦ δημοτικοῦ, πρὶν ἢ βεβαίως κρατύνασθαι [p. 73] τὴν ἀρχήν, οὐκ εἴασε τῶν νομίμων οὐδὲν αὐτῷ γενέσθαι: ἀλλ᾽ ἡ γυνὴ τοῦ Τυλλίου σὺν ὀλίγοις τισὶ τῶν φίλων, Ταρκυνίου θυγάτηρ οὖσα τοῦ προτέρου βασιλέως, νυκτὸς ἐκκομίζει τὸ σῶμα τῆς πόλεως, ὡς τῶν ἐπιτυχόντων τινός: καὶ πολλὰ μὲν τὸν ἑαυτῆς καὶ ἐκείνου δαίμονα κατοδυραμένη, μυρίας δὲ κατάρας τῷ τε γαμβρῷ καὶ τῇ θυγατρὶ καταρασαμένη κρύπτει γῇ τὸ σῶμα. [6] ἀπελθοῦσα δ᾽ ἀπὸ τοῦ σήματος οἴκαδε καὶ μίαν ἡμέραν ἐπιβιώσασα μετὰ τὴν ταφὴν τῇ κατόπιν
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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