Athenienses autem Timagoran, inter officium salutationis Dareum regem more gentis illius adulatum, capitali supplicio adfecerunt, unius civis humilibus blanditiis totius urbis suae decus Persicae dominationi summissum graviter ferentes.
The Athenians inflicted capital punishment on Timagoras because in the ceremony of saluting king Darius he had followed the adulatory custom of that nation. They were indignant that the glory of their whole city should be humbled before Persian dominion by the crawling flattery of a single citizen.
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