At first he was heard with pleasure, but as the sad story went on in too tragic style, the people became angry and punished 3 him, thinking that 4 Soon after this, Phrynichus composed a play with this disaster as its plot, which he put upon the stage at Athens in the lofty language of tragedy.
3 When in the first Medic war the Persians had plundered Asia, they besieged Miletus with mighty forces, threatened the defenders with death by torture, and drove the besieged to the necessity, overwhelmed as they all were by a weight of evils, of killing their own dear ones, consigning their movable possessions to the flames, and each one striving to be first to throw himself into the fire, to burn on the common funeral pyre of their country.
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2 And although, after long consideration of various circumstances, well-grounded dread restrained me from giving a minute account of this series of bloody deeds, yet I shall, relying on the better morals of the present day, set forth briefly such of them as are worthy of notice and I shall not be sorry to tell concisely what I have feared from events of antiquity. P89 wars were rising with renewed strength, somewhat more than sixteen years after the death of Nepotianus, 2 Bellona, raging throughout the Eternal City, set all ablaze, being aroused from insignificant beginnings to lamentable massacres and I could wish that everlasting silence had consigned these to oblivion, lest haply at some time similar crimes should be attempted, which might do more harm from their general example and precedent than through the offences themselves. 1 1 Many people, even senators and women of senatorial families are accused at Rome of poisoning, fornication, and adultery, and executed.ġ While among the Persians (as I have already related) 1 the perfidy of the king was arousing unexpected disturbances, and in the eastern regions
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