temptata redemptione propemodum uno ore legatis Bruti respondit ferrum sibi a maioribus quo urbem tuerentur, non aurum quo libertatem ab imperatore avaro emerent, relictum.
To Brutus envoys, who proposed a ransom, they replied almost with one voice that their ancestors had left them steel to defend their town, not gold to buy freedom from a greedy commander.
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