inde cum iocabundus quasi delusa sacrarum sortium fide reverteretur, incidit in regem Attalum saepenumero a se contumeliosis dictis absentem lacessitum, eiusque iussu saxo, cui nomen erat Equi, praecipitatus ad deos usque cavillandos dementis animi iusta supplicia pependit.
As he returned thence in jesting mood, as having cheated the good faith of holy prophecy, he fell in with king Attalus, whom he had often provoked in absence with insulting witticisms. At the kings orders he was hurled from a crag named Horses, thus paying a just penalty for his mad spirit that did not stop at making mock of the gods.
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