Huius casu aliquantum retardati sunt Boeotii, neque tamen prius pugna excesserunt quam repugnantes profligarunt. At Epaminondas cum animadverteret mortiferum se vulnus accepisse simulque, si ferrum, quod ex hastili in corpore remanserat, extraxisset, animam statim emissurum, usque eo retinuit, quoad renuntiatum est vicisse Boeotios. Id postquam audivit, Satis, inquit, vixi; invictus enim morior. Tum, ferro extracto, confestim exanimatus est.
By his death the Boeotians were checked for a time, but they did not leave the field until they had completely defeated the enemy. But Epaminondas, realizing that he had received a mortal wound, and at the same time that if he drew out the head of the lance, which was separated from the shaft and fixed in his body, he would at once die, retained it until news came that the Boeotians were victorious. As soon as he heard that, he cried: I have lived long enough, since I die unconquered. Then he drew out the iron and at once breathed his last.
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