Graeci excesserant vallo deliberaturi quid potissimum a rege peterent; cumque aliis sedem in Asia rogare, aliis reverti domos placeret, Euctemon Cymaeus ita locutus ad eos fertur: Ei, qui modo etiam ad opem petendam ex tenebris et carcere procedere erubuimus, ut nunc est, supplicia nostra'quorum nos pudeat magis an paeniteat, incertum est'ostentare Graeciae velut laetum spectaculum cupimus.
The Greeks had come out from the palisade to deliberate what it would be best to request of the king; and when some wished to ask for an abode in Asia, others to return to their homes, Euctemon of Cym is said to have addressed them as follows: We who but now were ashamed to come out from the darkness of a dungeon even to implore aid, desire, as things now stand, to display to Greece our mutilations'whether our shame or our grief is the greater is uncertain'as if they were a joyful spectacle.
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