Πύρρος

Sections

1.1 – 1.4 2.1 – 2.3 2.4 – 2.6 3.1 – 3.3 3.4 – 4.1 4.2 – 4.3 4.4 – 5.1 5.2 – 5.3 5.4 – 5.6 5.7 – 6.2 6.3 – 6.5 7.1 – 7.3 7.4 – 7.5 8.1 – 8.2 8.3 – 8.4 8.5 – 9.1 9.2 – 10.1 10.2 – 10.3 10.4 – 10.5 11.1 – 11.3 11.4 – 11.5 11.6 – 12.2 12.3 – 12.4 12.5 – 12.6 12.7 – 13.1 13.2 – 13.3 13.4 – 13.6 14.1 – 14.3 14.4 – 14.6 14.7 – 15.1 15.2 – 15.4 15.5 – 16.2 16.3 – 16.5 16.6 – 16.7 16.8 – 16.10 17.1 – 17.2 17.3 – 17.5 18.1 – 18.3 18.4 – 18.6 19.1 – 19.2 19.3 – 19.5 20.1 – 20.2 20.3 – 20.3 20.4 – 20.5 21.1 – 21.2 21.3 – 21.5 21.6 – 21.7 21.8 – 21.10 22.1 – 22.2 22.3 – 22.4 22.5 – 23.1 23.2 – 23.3 23.4 – 23.5 23.6 – 24.1 24.2 – 24.4 25.1 – 25.2 25.3 – 25.5 26.1 – 26.2 26.3 – 26.4 26.5 – 26.6 26.7 – 26.8 26.9 – 26.11 27.1 – 27.2 27.3 – 27.5 28.1 – 28.2 28.3 – 29.1 29.2 – 29.3 29.4 – 29.5 29.6 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.4 30.5 – 30.6 31.1 – 31.3 32.1 – 32.2 32.3 – 32.4 32.5 – 33.2 33.3 – 33.5 33.6 – 34.2 34.3 – 34.4 34.5 – 34.6

İngilizce Yunanca

20.1 After this, an embassy came from the Romans to treat about the prisoners that had been taken. The embassy was headed by Caius Fabricius, who, as Cineas reported, was held in highest esteem at Rome as an honourable man and good soldier, but was inordinately poor. To this man, then, Pyrrhus privately showed kindness and tried to induce him to accept gold, not for any base purpose, indeed, but calling it a mark of friendship and hospitality.

20.2 But Fabricius rejected the gold, and for that day Pyrrhus let him alone; on the following day, however, wishing to frighten a man who had not yet seen an elephant, he ordered the largest of these animals to be stationed behind a hanging in front of which they stood conversing together. This was done; and at a given signal the hanging was drawn aside, and the animal suddenly raised his trunk, held it over the head of Fabricius, and emitted a harsh and frightful cry.