Iam Atheniensium civitas ad vesaniam usque temeraria, quae decem universos imperatores suos, et quidem a pulcherrima victoria venientes, capitali iudicio exceptos necavit, quod militum corpora saevitia maris interpellante sepulturae mandare non potuissent, necessitatem puniens, cum honorare virtutem deberet.
The Athenian community was rash to the point of madness when it received all ten of its generals, coming as they did from a brilliant victory, with a capital trial and put them to death because they had been unable to consign the bodies of the soldiers to burial, the rough sea preventing. It punished necessity when it should have been rewarding merit.
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