Aeque tenax propositi L. Domitius: nam cum Siciliam praetor regeret et ad eum eximiae magnitudinis aper allatus esset, adduci ad se pastorem cuius manu occisus erat iussit, interrogatumque qui eam bestiam confecisset, postquam comperit usum venabulo, cruci fixit, quia ipse ad exturbanda latrocinia, quibus provincia vastabatur, ne quis telum haberet edixerat.
Equally tenacious of purpose was L. Domitius. When Praetor governing Sicily a boar of extraordinary size was brought to him. He ordered the shepherd by whose hand the animal had been killed to be led before him and asked how he had despatched it. When he learned that the man had used a hunting spear, he crucified him because he himself had published an edict forbidding the possession of weapons in order to get rid of the banditry which was ravaging the province.
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