adeo caeco furore summa quaeque effervescit crudelitas, cum munimentum ex se ipsa repperit: nam cum animadverteret quanto sui odio patria teneretur, timori remedium scelere petivit, quoque tutius plebe trucidata regnaret, frequens iuventute gymnasium armis et igni circumdedit, omnesque qui in eo erant partim ferro, partim flamma necavit.
Such is the blind madness in which the ultimate in cruelty boils over, finding its bulwark in itself. For since he perceived how much his country hated him, he sought a remedy for fear in crime, and so that he might reign more safely after massacring the populace he surrounded a gymnasium full of young men with arms and fire and killed all who were inside partly by steel, partly by the flames.
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