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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.64.12–I.49.64.14
Ancient Greek
p. 150064.12
Ἔφη γὰρ δὴ καὶ παραγενέσθαι ἐρωτωμένῳ ἑτέρῳ ὑπὸ ἑτέρου, ὅπου εἴη Ἀρδιαῖος ὁ μέγας. Ὁ δὲ Ἀρδιαῖος οὗτος τῆς Παμφυλίας ἔν τινι πόλει τύραννος ἐγεγόνει, ἤδη χιλιοστὸν ἔτος εἰς ἐκεῖνον τὸν χρόνον, γέροντά τε πατέρα ἀποκτείνας καὶ πρεσβύτερον ἀδελφόν, ἄλλα τε πολλὰ καὶ ἀνόσια εἰργασμένος, ὡς ἔλεγεν. Ἔφη οὖν τὸν ἐρωτώμενον εἰπεῖν· “οὐχ ἥκει”, φάναι, “οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἥξει δεῦρο”.
64.13
Ἐθεασάμεθα γὰρ οὖν δὴ καὶ τοῦτο τῶν δεινῶν θεαμάτων. Ἐπειδὴ ἐγγὺς τοῦ στομίου ἦμεν μέλλοντες ἀνιέναι, καὶ τἆλλα πάντα πεπονθότες, ἐκεῖνον τότε κατείδομεν ἐξαίφνης καὶ ἄλλους σχεδόν τι αὐτῶν τοὺς πλείστους τυράννους· ἦσαν δὲ καὶ ἰδιῶταί τινες τῶν μεγάλα ἡμαρτηκότων. Οὓς οἰομένους ἤδη ἀναβήσεσθαι οὐκ ἐδέχετο τὸ στόμιον, ἀλλ᾽ ἐμυκᾶτο, ὁπότε τις τῶν οὕτως ἀνιάτως ἐχόντων εἰς πονηρίαν ἢ μὴ ἱκανῶς δεδωκὼς δίκην ἐπιχειροίη ἀνιέναι.
64.14
Ἐνταῦθα δὴ ἄνδρες, ἔφη, ἄγριοι, διάπυροι ἰδεῖν, παρεστῶτες καὶ καταμανθάνοντες τὸ θέμα, τοὺς μὲν ἰδίᾳ λαβόντες ἦγον,
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 150164.12 · Ardiaeus the tyrant
For he said that he had been present when one person asked another where Ardiaeus the Great was. This Ardiaeus had been tyrant of a city in Pamphylia a thousand years before that time. He had killed his elderly father and his elder brother and committed many other impious deeds, according to the account. The person questioned replied, he said: “He has not come, nor will he come here.”1801
64.13 · The opening refuses passage
“For among the terrible sights we witnessed was this. When we were near the mouth of the opening, about to ascend after enduring everything else, we suddenly saw him and others, almost all of them tyrants. There were also some private individuals who had committed great wrongs. They thought they were now going to ascend, but the opening would not admit them. It bellowed whenever anyone incurably wicked in this way, or anyone who had not paid a sufficient penalty, attempted to go up.”1802
64.14 · The fiery guards
“Then,” he said, “savage men, fiery to look upon, who stood nearby and observed the scene, seized some of them separately and led them away.”1803
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