« Plut. TG 19 | Plut. TG 19 | Plut. TG 20 | About This Work »
6So he let his toga go and fled in his tunic. But he stumbled and fell to the ground among some bodies that lay in front of him. As he strove to rise to his feet, he received his first blow, as everybody admits, from Publius Satyreius, one of his colleagues, who smote him on the head with the leg of a bench; to the second blow claim was made by Lucius Rufus, who plumed himself upon it as upon some noble deed. And of the rest more than three hundred were slain by blows from sticks and stones, but not one by the sword.
« Plut. TG 19 | Plut. TG 19 | Plut. TG 20 | About This Work »