Philotas verone an mendacio liberare se a cruciatu voluerit anceps coniectura est, quoniam et vera confessis et falsa dicentibus idem doloris finis ostenditur.
Whether Philotas wished to free himself from further torture by telling the truth or by a falsehood, it is difficult to divine, since the same end to suffering is offered to those who have confessed the truth and  to those who say what is false.
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