Ti. Gracchus, anguibus domi suae mare <et> femina apprehensis, certior factus ab haruspice mare dimisso uxori eius, femina ipsi celerem obitum instare, salutarem coniugi potius quam sibi partem augurii secutus, marem necari, feminam dimitti iussit, sustinuitque in conspectu suo se ipsum interitu serpentis occidi.
A male and a female snake were caught in Ti. Gracchus house. He was informed by a soothsayer that if the male were let go, his wife, and if the female, he himself would shortly die. Pursuant to that part of the prediction which made in favour of his wife rather than himself, he ordered the male to be killed and the female let go, thus letting himself be slaughtered in his own sight by the destruction of the snake.
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