Consimili genere aemulationis instincta, civitas Atheniensium indigno gloriae suae decreto Aeginensium iuventuti pollices abscidit, ut classe potens populus in certamen maritimarum virium secum descendere nequiret.
Prompted by a similar sort of jealousy the Athenian community by a decree unworthy of its glory cut off the thumbs of the young men of Aegina, so that her people, which had a powerful navy, should not be able to come to a contest of maritime strength with themselves.
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