en quem dubites, si alterum tantum daretur, iugulum quoque suum aequo animo illis fuisse praebiturum! Ceterum avaritia ante omnes L. Septimuleii praecordia possedit; qui cum C. Gracchi familiaris fuisset, caput eius abscidere et per urbem pilo fixum ferre sustinuit, quia Opimius consul auro id se repensurum edixerat.
Doubt if you can that, if as much again had been forthcoming, he would willingly have offered them his throat! But above all others avarice possessed the heart of L. Septimuleius. He brought himself to cut off the head of C. Gracchus, whose close friend he had been, and carry it through the city on a javelin because Consul Opimius had publicly promised its weight in gold.
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