Nam Bassus, effosso agro suo latisque circum arvis, dum hunc illum locum promissi specus adseverat, sequunturque non modo milites, sed populus agrestium efficiendo operi adsumptus, tandem posita vaecordia, non falsa antea somnia sua seque tunc primum elusum admirans, pudorem et metum morte voluntaria effugit.
For Bassus'who had dug up his own land along with a wide stretch of the adjacent plains, always insisting that this or that was the site of the promised cave, and followed not simply by the soldiers but by a whole people of rustics enlisted to carry out the work'at last threw off his delusion, and, with an astonished protest that never before had his dreams proved fallible and that this was his first deception, avoided disgrace and danger by a voluntary death.
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