C. Popilius apud maiores nostros cum ad Antiochum regem legatus missus esset et verbis senatus nuntiasset ut ab Alexandria discederet, quam obsidebat, cum tempus ille differret, virgula stantem circumscripsit dixitque se renuntiaturum senatui, nisi prius sibi respondisset quid facturus esset quam ex illa circumscriptione exisset.
In the days of our ancestors, when Gaius Popilius was sent as envoy to king Antiochus and conveyed verbatim the senates demand that the king retire from Alexandria, which he was besieging, when the king kept introducing delays, Popilius used a stick to draw a line around him where he stood, and said he would convey a negative report back to the senate unless the king gave him an answer as to his intentions before he left that circle.
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