rex, quo patientia pueri magis delectatus est, hoc certius perseverantiae experimentum sumere voluit: consulto enim sacrificavit diutius, nec hac re eum proposito reppulit.
The more pleased the king was by the boys fortitude, the more he wanted to make a surer trial of his constancy, for he deliberately took longer over the sacrifice; but by so doing he did not drive him from his resolution.
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