Themistocles autem, quem virtus sua victorem, iniuria patriae imperatorem Persarum fecerat, ut se ab ea oppugnanda abstineret, instituto sacrificio exceptum patera tauri sanguinem hausit, et ante ipsam aram quasi quaedam pietatis clara victima concidit.
His own merits made Themistocles conqueror of the Persians, his countrys injury made him their general. To escape having to attack her, he made a sacrifice and drank from a bowl in which bulls blood had been collected, and fell before the very altar like some famous victim of Piety.
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