harum rerum auctores ubi vixerunt? ubi iacent? responde! nempe Thesea parvulo in scopulo sepeliri, et Miltiadem in carcere mori, et Cimona paternas induere catenas, et Themistoclea victorem victi hostis genua complecti, Solonemque cum Aristide et Phocione penates suos ingrata fugere coegisti, cum interim cineribus nostris foede ac miserabiliter dispersis Oedipodis ossa, caede patris, nuptiis matris contaminata, inter ipsum Arium pagum, divini atque humani certaminis venerabile domicilium, et excelsam praesidis Minervae arcem honore arae decorata sacrosancti herois more colis.
Where did the authors of all this live? Where do they lie? Answer! In your ingratitude you forced, did you not, Theseus to be buried on a little rock, Miltiades to die in prison, Cimon to put on his fathers chains, Themistocles the victor to clasp the knees of the vanquished enemy, Solon and Aristides and Phocion to flee their household gods? And all the time, while our ashes are foully and pitiably scattered, you pay cult to the bones of Oedipus, tainted with a fathers murder and a mothers marriage, in the fashion of a sacrosanct hero, adorned with the honour of an altar, on the very hill of Ares, the venerable home of divine and human conflict, and the lofty citadel of guardian Minerva.
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